{"id":6622,"date":"2020-12-20T08:40:40","date_gmt":"2020-12-20T16:40:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/?p=6622"},"modified":"2020-12-20T08:40:42","modified_gmt":"2020-12-20T16:40:42","slug":"declarative-oregon-sentences","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/meditations\/declarative-oregon-sentences\/","title":{"rendered":"Declarative Oregon Sentences"},"content":{"rendered":"<!--themify_builder_content-->\n<div id=\"themify_builder_content-6622\" data-postid=\"6622\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-6622 themify_builder tf_clear\">\n    <\/div>\n<!--\/themify_builder_content-->\n\n\n<p>Ernest Hemingway once wrote somewhere that he liked to warm up before writing novels and stories by writing ten or so simple declarative sentences. He didn&#8217;t say if they were fiction or nonfiction sentences. Perhaps it didn&#8217;t matter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I want to warm up this morning by writing some simple declarative sentences before I start in on a story. Their subject is an impromptu and grand hike I took with friends a couple days ago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We walked an old logging trail into a federal wilderness area.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The wilderness was the result of an old man who loved the area.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mist drifted through the forest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Wind whipped the tree tops.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I wore my pea coat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My friends toked out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One friend gathered lichen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We would later drink hot sake with the lichen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I saw a slug.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We marveled at the Oregon grape and bent hemlock branches.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The road ended at a rocky top.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There would have been a fine view of the hills and ocean had not fog obscured it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This place had the feel of a fort.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Many years ago, men manned this fort looking for Japanese planes that might bomb Oregon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I imagined they were always drunk while on duty.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I often feel lucky to have such friends as these two.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As we talked, I pitched ideas to them for a new novel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I often feel lucky to live on the Oregon Coast.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On the way back, I picked up beer cans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I also found an old flyswatter placed in a tree branch.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A flyswatter there made no sense.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It must be a clue to some kind of crime or foraging expedition.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ernest Hemingway once wrote somewhere that he liked to warm up before writing novels and stories by writing ten or so simple declarative sentences. He didn&#8217;t say if they were fiction or nonfiction sentences. Perhaps it didn&#8217;t matter. I want to warm up this morning by writing some simple declarative sentences before I start in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6623,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6622","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-meditations","category-oregon-coast_history","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\/6622","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=6622"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6622\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6624,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6622\/revisions\/6624"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}