{"id":1485,"date":"2019-09-25T01:15:42","date_gmt":"2019-09-25T01:15:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/?p=1485"},"modified":"2019-09-18T01:56:18","modified_gmt":"2019-09-18T01:56:18","slug":"daytime-fireflies-by-sydney-smith","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/2019\/09\/25\/daytime-fireflies-by-sydney-smith\/","title":{"rendered":"Daytime Fireflies by Sydney Smith"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>A Jill-of-all-trades (master of one: disco dancing), Sydney Smith has published poems and\u00a0biophysics research. Suffering from FOMO, she studied both physics and philosophy. Nature\u2019s mystique inspires her to share science through storytelling. She can be reached at sydneylynsmith@gmail.com<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-size:14px\"><em> She can be reached at sydneylynsmith@gmail.com<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-size:23px\"><br>Daytime Fireflies<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The hike down to the waterfall is as slippery <br> as buttered corn on the cob with a few bites missing. <br> A throaty <em>shhhh<\/em> warns of the bubbly white horizon, <br> and audible power seeps into open ears, taking residence <br> in the space once occupied by meditations on balance. <br> But it is the daytime fireflies who enchant. <br> I mean the ones birthed as jutting rocks cut <br> the falls open, spurting the fireflies into life. <br> Into a chaotic descent, a quantization of the waterfall <br> whose whole flow, in turn, smooths the rocks. <br> We each help form the world in which we live <br> as we spin our webs \u2018til they catch, <br> our individual souls forged by our own falls. <br> And, you know, the daytime fireflies <br> look like they\u2019re having so much fun <br> it almost makes you want to jump with them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Jill-of-all-trades (master of one: disco dancing), Sydney Smith has published poems and\u00a0biophysics research. Suffering from FOMO, she studied both physics and philosophy. Nature\u2019s mystique inspires her to share science through storytelling. She can be reached at sydneylynsmith@gmail.com She can be reached at sydneylynsmith@gmail.com Daytime Fireflies The hike down to the waterfall is as slippery &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/2019\/09\/25\/daytime-fireflies-by-sydney-smith\/\" class=\"excerpt-link\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"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":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pa867U-nX","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1485","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1485"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1485\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1497,"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1485\/revisions\/1497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}