{"id":11289,"date":"2026-03-30T08:02:25","date_gmt":"2026-03-30T15:02:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/?p=9771"},"modified":"2026-03-30T08:02:25","modified_gmt":"2026-03-30T15:02:25","slug":"the-apple","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/the-apple\/","title":{"rendered":"The Apple"},"content":{"rendered":"<!-- wp:themify-builder\/canvas \/-->\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In summer twilight<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">she dangled upside down<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">in an apple tree outside the church.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Her legs wrapped around a thin branch.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Green fruit hung all around her.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Leaves beginning to yellow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We were late for my friend\u2019s wedding<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">that she didn\u2019t want to attend.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I asked her to climb down but she refused.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI\u2019ll just wait here and you come get me when it\u2019s over.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I promise I\u2019ll go to the reception,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Then she picked a small green apple from a tree an extended it to me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI promise,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I took the apple. \u201cYou have to take a bite,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So I did. Sour and seedy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Three weeks later she broke up with me on a Starbucks patio.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">She said she couldn&#8217;t go against her father&#8217;s wishes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In summer twilight she dangled upside down in an apple tree outside the church. Her legs wrapped around a thin branch. Green fruit hung all around her. Leaves beginning to yellow. We were late for my friend\u2019s wedding that she didn\u2019t want to attend. I asked her to climb down but she refused. \u201cI\u2019ll just [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9772,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,16],"tags":[598,599],"class_list":["post-11289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-meditations","category-poetry","tag-lisa-barnes","tag-lisa-gougler","has-post-title","has-post-date","has-post-category","has-post-tag","has-post-comment","has-post-author",""],"builder_content":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11289","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11289"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11289\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}