{"id":12627,"date":"2017-03-22T13:24:35","date_gmt":"2017-03-22T17:24:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/?p=12627"},"modified":"2017-03-22T13:24:35","modified_gmt":"2017-03-22T17:24:35","slug":"silver-linings-by-barbara-lefcowitz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/silver-linings-by-barbara-lefcowitz\/","title":{"rendered":"Silver Linings by Barbara Lefcowitz"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Silver linings have broken away from their clouds.<br \/>\nI\u2019m not sure when this separation began,<br \/>\ncan only note how the linings twist and float,<br \/>\nwrap around hailstones, debris tossed<br \/>\nfrom rooftops; dangle dangerously from wires.<br \/>\nSlivers of glare cling to eyes and hair.<\/p>\n<p>Experts cannot explain why<br \/>\nthough they warn that the linings<br \/>\ncan conceal the pores in fine chocolates<br \/>\nthrough which someone might pour<br \/>\narsenic, belladonna; set young stars on fire.<\/p>\n<p>Skeptics claim they may not, after all,<br \/>\nbe the linings of clouds but tin-foil bands<br \/>\nfrom old cigarette packs, thin silver<br \/>\nsuitable for slim rings, soft paper clips.<\/p>\n<p>But most people need to cast blame on<br \/>\nsomething particular: the jet stream,<br \/>\nal Qaeda, sins of the Right, the Left,<br \/>\nMata Hari, the Hittites, the Internet.<br \/>\nAnd lament how the disappearance of darkness<br \/>\nmakes it impossible to recognize light.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Silver linings have broken away from their clouds. I\u2019m not sure when this separation began, can only note how the linings twist and float, wrap around hailstones, debris tossed from rooftops; dangle dangerously from wires. Slivers of glare cling to eyes and hair. Experts cannot explain why though they warn that the linings can conceal [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[121],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-barbara-f-lefcowitz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12627","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12627"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12627\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12628,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12627\/revisions\/12628"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}