{"id":6900,"date":"2021-04-05T06:54:02","date_gmt":"2021-04-05T13:54:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/?p=6900"},"modified":"2021-04-05T06:54:05","modified_gmt":"2021-04-05T13:54:05","slug":"easter-sunday-declarative-sentences","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/meditations\/easter-sunday-declarative-sentences\/","title":{"rendered":"Easter Sunday Declarative Sentences"},"content":{"rendered":"<!--themify_builder_content-->\n<div id=\"themify_builder_content-6900\" data-postid=\"6900\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-6900 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 inspired by observations\/reflections on Easter Sunday morning:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A youth soccer practice in a park was about to begin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A man dug through a dumpster while his friend smoked in the cab of an idling pickup.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I wore a windbreaker from my teaching days.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Two runners passed me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A man hid Easter eggs with his two children.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A masked man wearing a mauve sport coat entered a Catholic church.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Church bells pealed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I counted two Norman Mailer books in a street library.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I stopped for a squirrel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A man and woman played tennis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A woman searched for cans and bottles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A couple worked on their yard.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Roots upended sidewalks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I heard a church service going on.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I moved through a grove of Douglas firs where I was married.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A man and woman pushed a baby stroller.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A frayed red, white and blue basketball net hung from a rusted hoop attached to a moldy backboard.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>People lined up at a bakery.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The smell of ham was in the air.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I composed a country song about Jesus rising on the Internet. It&#8217;s first verse went: <em>Easter Sunday came around \/ Covid 19 shut the congregations down \/ But Christians don&#8217;t you fret \/ Because Jesus will rise on the Internet<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A strip club was about to open.<\/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 inspired by observations\/reflections on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6901,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-meditations","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\/6900","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=6900"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6900\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6903,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6900\/revisions\/6903"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6901"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}