{"id":6794,"date":"2026-05-10T19:28:48","date_gmt":"2026-05-11T01:28:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/?p=6794"},"modified":"2026-05-10T19:28:48","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T01:28:48","slug":"a-kind-of-silence-for-sunday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/2026\/05\/10\/a-kind-of-silence-for-sunday\/","title":{"rendered":"A Kind of Silence for Sunday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&rsquo;s getting down to the 30s up there, he said. It&rsquo;s just him and Abernathy and the quiet up there in the woods on a chilly evening. There is a fire in the fireplace.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>He sent a photograph. The fading sun on the far side of the lake. Pink sky. Pink, still water. A blue bench for sitting. A place to view the land and to listen to that quiet. A place where we have set ourselves down many times over the many years. He knew well what he was doing when he sent that picture.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Dang man,&rdquo; I said.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Yeah right?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>And that is all that needed to be said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&rsquo;s getting down to the 30s up there, he said. It&rsquo;s just him and Abernathy and the quiet up there in the woods on a chilly evening. There is a fire in the fireplace.&nbsp; He sent a photograph. The fading sun on the far side of the lake. Pink sky. Pink, still water. A blue [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6794"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6794"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6794\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6795,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6794\/revisions\/6795"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}