{"id":15831,"date":"2017-04-27T20:37:52","date_gmt":"2017-04-27T20:37:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/?p=15831"},"modified":"2017-04-27T20:37:52","modified_gmt":"2017-04-27T20:37:52","slug":"life-island-times-5-am","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/life-island-times-5-am\/","title":{"rendered":"Life &#038; Island Times: 5 AM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Editor&#8217;s Note: one of Savannah&#8217;s most earnest scribblers contributes this poetic gem this morning. It reminds me of lying in bed at Refuge Farm, listening to the lonely sound of the horn on the freight train rolling down the tracks that my ancestors helped to build. Trains, and night. A lot going on here, none of it particularly interesting. But you will be happy to know that the plumbing works again.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Vic<\/p>\n<p>5 AM<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/042717-LIT.jpg\" alt=\"042717-LIT\" width=\"516\" height=\"243\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-15832\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/042717-LIT.jpg 516w, https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/042717-LIT-300x141.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/042717-LIT-500x235.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 516px) 100vw, 516px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>there is something about<br \/>\nSavannah,<br \/>\nit doesn&#8217;t let me feel guilty<br \/>\nthat I have not had feeling for the<br \/>\nthings so many others<br \/>\nneed.<br \/>\nit has left me alone.<\/p>\n<p>sitting up in my chair<br \/>\nwith one dim light on,<br \/>\nlistening for 5 AM train<br \/>\nwhistle,<br \/>\nfinishing off the<br \/>\nbottle of wine,<br \/>\nthe softness of<br \/>\nthe fruit<br \/>\nhits<br \/>\nme<br \/>\nas I hear a distant rumble<br \/>\nmoving towards the<br \/>\nhouse.<\/p>\n<p>I prefer trains<br \/>\nto<br \/>\nclocks<\/p>\n<p>maybe I\u2019m<br \/>\ncrazy<br \/>\ntrains know and call<br \/>\nout my name<br \/>\nclocks do<br \/>\nnot<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2017 From My Isle Seat<br \/>\nwww.vicsocotra.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Editor&#8217;s Note: one of Savannah&#8217;s most earnest scribblers contributes this poetic gem this morning. It reminds me of lying in bed at Refuge Farm, listening to the lonely sound of the horn on the freight train rolling down the tracks that my ancestors helped to build. Trains, and night. A lot going on here, none [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-island-times"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15831","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15831"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15831\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15833,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15831\/revisions\/15833"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}