{"id":38354,"date":"2024-01-24T10:41:02","date_gmt":"2024-01-24T15:41:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/?p=38354"},"modified":"2024-02-12T09:40:19","modified_gmt":"2024-02-12T14:40:19","slug":"there-are-things-closer-than-rain-that-keep-hope-alive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/2024\/01\/there-are-things-closer-than-rain-that-keep-hope-alive.html","title":{"rendered":"‘There are things closer than rain \/ that keep hope alive’<\/em>"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
Thinking of Carl Weissner<\/a>, a great one
so rudely interrupted 12 years ago today. <\/em><\/h5>\n\n\n\n
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Carl Weissner died on Jan. 24, 2012<\/em>.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n
There are things \ncloser than rain \nthat keep hope alive <\/strong>\nthough in time they fade\nand pass from mind\u2014 \ntenement flowers \nseasoned with heartbreak, \nchattering weeds\nand the silence of fireflies\u2014 \nthings that may not be\nmore brilliant \nthan a \u200bwine-stained shirt \nand crow\u2019s-feet eyes. \n\u200bBut they will do. \u2014 JH<\/em>  <\/strong>\n<\/pre>\n\n\n\n
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This ‘deformed sonnet’ was written in memory of Carl Weissner, a great one who was so rudely interrupted 12 years ago today. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":52313,"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":[19,26,18,4,23,17],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-38354","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-art","8":"category-books","9":"category-literature","10":"category-main","11":"category-news","12":"category-political-culture","13":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/1-carl-bdr-1.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbvgEs-9YC","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38354","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=38354"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38354\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59315,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38354\/revisions\/59315"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}