{"id":256,"date":"2014-01-11T18:48:05","date_gmt":"2014-01-11T08:48:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.neonwinter.com\/blog\/?p=256"},"modified":"2014-01-11T18:48:05","modified_gmt":"2014-01-11T08:48:05","slug":"arrival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.neonwinter.com\/blog\/?p=256","title":{"rendered":"Arrival"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I arrived this morning before dawn by the Western dock, tumbled ashore by a sudden and violent wave &#8211; the first and only such I encountered in my entire journey across the sound. Perhaps I am no longer welcome here. These cliffs and caves and fells are forbidding enough on the best day, and so I am ill at ease. I find myself wondering how it was that Donnelly first came to the island all those years ago. I have always pictured a storm &#8211; sea and sky in an upheaval so violent that it becomes impossible to tell them apart, and Donnelly&#8217;s boat swimming through the churn of water and air to land on this very beach.&nbsp; But isn&#8217;t it more likely that the island welcomed him? That he alighted on the tide pools with the morning gulls from a gentle fogbound crossing?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I arrived this morning before dawn by the Western dock, tumbled ashore by a sudden and violent wave &#8211; the first and only such I encountered in my entire journey across the sound. Perhaps I am no longer welcome here. These cliffs and caves and fells are forbidding enough on the best day, and so [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[18],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.neonwinter.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.neonwinter.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.neonwinter.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.neonwinter.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.neonwinter.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=256"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.neonwinter.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":257,"href":"http:\/\/www.neonwinter.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256\/revisions\/257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.neonwinter.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.neonwinter.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.neonwinter.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}