{"id":1811,"date":"2026-08-12T17:24:43","date_gmt":"2026-08-12T22:24:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lonniebuerge.com\/?p=1811"},"modified":"2026-08-12T17:29:34","modified_gmt":"2026-08-12T22:29:34","slug":"weathered","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lonniebuerge.com\/?p=1811","title":{"rendered":"Weathered"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"> &#8212;-after Susan Campbell<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The cedar board on the old fence<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">had weathered the winds<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">and the rains, the sun, snow<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">and sleet of this place.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Yet it held. Stayed upright.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Stayed in service.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Helped by other boards nearby<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">and a tending now and then<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">that I could offer.&nbsp; It held.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Pitted and strafed, scratched<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">and scraped, scarred into beauty.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8212;-after Susan Campbell The cedar board on the old fence had weathered the winds and the rains, the sun,&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1811","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7aJeL-td","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lonniebuerge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1811","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lonniebuerge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lonniebuerge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lonniebuerge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lonniebuerge.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1811"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.lonniebuerge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1811\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1814,"href":"https:\/\/www.lonniebuerge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1811\/revisions\/1814"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lonniebuerge.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lonniebuerge.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lonniebuerge.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}