{"id":11344,"date":"2026-08-06T06:43:06","date_gmt":"2026-08-06T13:43:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/?p=9995"},"modified":"2026-08-06T06:43:06","modified_gmt":"2026-08-06T13:43:06","slug":"this-morning-july-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/this-morning-july-2009\/","title":{"rendered":"This Morning \/ July 2009"},"content":{"rendered":"<!-- wp:themify-builder\/canvas \/-->\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I went to the beach this morning,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">like every other Oregon morning,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">watched gulls drink from a stream,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">the crippled dog lag behind,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">the old dog lag farther behind.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The waves rolled in, bringing their bright clear spaces.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I left the beach and went to the club,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">watched a woman from a Gram Parsons song,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">slide to the mic, rise on tiptoes,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">begin to sing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Her low-slung brown cords slid even lower.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I heard her sing Neil Young<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">and this was not the day the music died<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">but lived.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I left the club and went to the beach,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">wanting waves to annihilate my former not so helpless self,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">wash away the acid and the damage done,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To have the ocean\u2014and her\u2014become the drug that makes you dream,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">as Neil Young once sang.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I picked up the pace, picked up a stick.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The crippled dog caught up,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">the old dog too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I felt like writing her name in the fresh unmarked sand<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">with the stick, so I did,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">on a morning finer than most.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I went to the beach this morning, like every other Oregon morning, watched gulls drink from a stream, the crippled dog lag behind, the old dog lag farther behind. The waves rolled in, bringing their bright clear spaces. I left the beach and went to the club, watched a woman from a Gram Parsons song, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9996,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-meditations","category-poetry","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\/11344","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=11344"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11344\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}