{"id":30237,"date":"2018-06-27T14:16:38","date_gmt":"2018-06-27T18:16:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/?p=30237"},"modified":"2018-06-27T15:30:49","modified_gmt":"2018-06-27T19:30:49","slug":"delicate-ghosts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/2018\/06\/delicate-ghosts.html","title":{"rendered":"Delicate Ghosts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/carousel-2foto-prospect-park-693cropped.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"30255\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/2018\/06\/delicate-ghosts.html\/carousel-2foto-prospect-park-693cropped\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/carousel-2foto-prospect-park-693cropped.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"693,264\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Carousel in Prospect Park\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/carousel-2foto-prospect-park-693cropped-300x114.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/carousel-2foto-prospect-park-693cropped.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/carousel-2foto-prospect-park-693cropped.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"693\" height=\"264\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-30255\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/carousel-2foto-prospect-park-693cropped.jpg 693w, https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/carousel-2foto-prospect-park-693cropped-300x114.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 693px) 100vw, 693px\" \/><\/a><font size=4><strong>Almost 70 years ago<br \/>\nin Prospect Park where<br \/>\nthe future waited like a whim<br \/>\nmy childhood slipped through.<br \/>\nYou held me with my arms<br \/>\naround your neck.<br \/>\nThe carousel goes round<br \/>\nwith our delicate ghosts<br \/>\nlike shadows on a scrim.<br \/>\nThe terrible wind<br \/>\nthat carries us off<br \/>\nhas not blown them away.<br \/>\nI smell the popcorn.<br \/>\nI hear the barrel organ.<\/strong><\/font> <\/p>\n<p><strong><em>&#8211;JH<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Almost 70 years ago in Prospect Park where the future waited like a whim my childhood slipped through. You held me with my arms around your neck. The carousel goes round with our delicate ghosts like shadows on a scrim. The terrible wind that carries us off has not blown them away. I smell the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[18,4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-30237","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-literature","7":"category-main","8":"entry","9":"has-post-thumbnail"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbvgEs-7RH","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30237","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30237"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30237\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30272,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30237\/revisions\/30272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}