{"id":4669,"date":"2018-12-12T07:08:11","date_gmt":"2018-12-12T15:08:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/?p=4669"},"modified":"2020-06-21T18:48:41","modified_gmt":"2020-06-22T01:48:41","slug":"slash-burn-rainbow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/meditations\/slash-burn-rainbow\/","title":{"rendered":"Slash Burn Rainbow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Smoke from the slash burns<\/p>\n<p>hangs on the hills.<\/p>\n<p>Soon, slash burns will have gone<\/p>\n<p>the way of bloodletting. <\/p>\n<p>But for now, they glow in the distance,<\/p>\n<p>and send up a brown and orange haze<\/p>\n<p>that brings to mind that song,<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSmoke From a Distant Fire,\u201d<\/p>\n<p>by the one-hit wonder, Sanford-Townsend Band,<\/p>\n<p>the greatest slash burn song in rock history,<\/p>\n<p>played by a band that never saw or smelled<\/p>\n<p>a slash burn.<\/p>\n<p>That song is playing, right now,<\/p>\n<p>as I drive toward a rainbow<\/p>\n<p>shooting and curling out of the haze,<\/p>\n<p>a song on AM radio,<\/p>\n<p>sandwiched between two Save-Me-Jesus stations<\/p>\n<p>fire and brimstoning about the <\/p>\n<p>end of the world.<\/p>\n<p>Rain fell somewhere in the hills,<\/p>\n<p>I know it did.<\/p>\n<p>A rainbow is all the proof I need,<\/p>\n<p>of the presence of rain,<\/p>\n<p>and other good things. <\/p>\n<!--themify_builder_content-->\n<div id=\"themify_builder_content-4669\" data-postid=\"4669\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-4669 themify_builder tf_clear\">\n    <\/div>\n<!--\/themify_builder_content-->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Smoke from the slash burns hangs on the hills. Soon, slash burns will have gone the way of bloodletting. But for now, they glow in the distance, and send up a brown and orange haze that brings to mind that song, \u201cSmoke From a Distant Fire,\u201d by the one-hit wonder, Sanford-Townsend Band, the greatest slash [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4671,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,42],"tags":[6,13,553,190,88,364,973],"class_list":["post-4669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-meditations","category-poetry","tag-matt-love","tag-oregon-coast","tag-oregon-poem","tag-oregon-poetry","tag-poetry","tag-probation-poem","tag-slash-burn","has-post-title","has-post-date","has-post-category","has-post-tag","has-post-comment","has-post-author",""],"builder_content":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4669","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4669"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4669\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4672,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4669\/revisions\/4672"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}