{"id":1665,"date":"2016-02-29T05:54:21","date_gmt":"2016-02-29T13:54:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rhinoblues.com\/thoughts\/?p=1665"},"modified":"2016-02-29T05:54:21","modified_gmt":"2016-02-29T13:54:21","slug":"february-29","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rhinoblues.com\/thoughts\/2016\/02\/february-29\/","title":{"rendered":"February 29"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>FEBRUARY 29<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">An extra day \u2014<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Like the painting\u2019s fifth cow,<br \/>\nwho looks out directly,<br \/>\nstraight toward you,<br \/>\nfrom inside her black and white spots.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">An extra day \u2014<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Accidental, surely:<br \/>\nthe made calendar stumbling over the real<br \/>\nas a drunk trips over a threshold<br \/>\ntoo low to see.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">An extra day \u2014<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">With a second cup of black coffee.<br \/>\nA friendly but businesslike phone call.<br \/>\nA mailed-back package.<br \/>\nSome extra work, but not too much \u2014<br \/>\njust one day\u2019s worth, exactly.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">An extra day \u2014<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Not unlike the space<br \/>\nbetween a door and its frame<br \/>\nwhen one room is lit and another is not,<br \/>\nand one changes into the other<br \/>\nas a woman exchanges a scarf.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">An extra day \u2014<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Extraordinarily like any other.<br \/>\nAnd still<br \/>\nthere is some generosity to it,<br \/>\nlike a letter re-readable after its writer has died.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">From\u00a0<strong><em>The Beauty<\/em>\u00a0<\/strong>by Jane Hirshfield (<em>via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.brainpickings.org\/2016\/02\/29\/february-29-jane-hirshfield\/\" target=\"_blank\">Brain Pickings<\/a>)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>By date at least, I only have half birthdays once every 4 years. Today is my 10th half birthday. Weird. I know half birthdays are something for kids\u2026but with mine being on the leap day\u2026its kind of interesting to me in a way I can&#8217;t quite explain.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not quite sure whether or not an extra day is a gift or a curse this year yet. That will be something to be determined later. I am still hopeful that 2016 will be a good year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FEBRUARY 29 An extra day \u2014 Like the painting\u2019s fifth cow, who looks out directly, straight toward you, from inside her black and white spots. An extra day \u2014 Accidental, surely: the made calendar stumbling over the real as a drunk trips over a threshold too low to see. An extra day \u2014 With a &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rhinoblues.com\/thoughts\/2016\/02\/february-29\/\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1327,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,6],"tags":[542,541,530],"class_list":["post-1665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-life-or-something-like-it","category-poetry","tag-half-birthday","tag-leap-year","tag-poetry","item-wrap"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.rhinoblues.com\/thoughts\/upload\/\/app_1_220086724709892_1567717122.gif","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rhinoblues.com\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1665","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rhinoblues.com\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rhinoblues.com\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rhinoblues.com\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rhinoblues.com\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1665"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rhinoblues.com\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1665\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1666,"href":"https:\/\/www.rhinoblues.com\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1665\/revisions\/1666"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rhinoblues.com\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rhinoblues.com\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rhinoblues.com\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rhinoblues.com\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}