{"id":4331,"date":"2006-01-20T17:19:24","date_gmt":"2006-01-20T21:19:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/formerlyknownas\/2006\/01\/20\/md-welch-checks-in\/"},"modified":"2011-08-05T14:54:14","modified_gmt":"2011-08-05T18:54:14","slug":"md-welch-checks-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/2006\/01\/20\/md-welch-checks-in\/","title":{"rendered":"m.d. welch checks in"},"content":{"rendered":"

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“first date” –  edge of light<\/EM>: RMA 2003<\/FONT><\/DIV>
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“morning sun” – <\/FONT>pegging the wind<\/FONT><\/EM><\/A>: RMA 2002<\/FONT><\/DIV>
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“accumulating snow–”  <\/FONT>frogpond<\/STRONG><\/FONT><\/EM><\/A> XXVIII: 1 (Winter 2005)<\/FONT><\/DIV>
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PSST!<\/STRONG><\/EM>  In reaction to our post “<\/FONT>we should make the word “blawg” obsolete<\/FONT><\/A>“, <\/FONT><\/FONT>the <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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  old folks’ home      the square of light           crosses the room       “welch old gray” photo with haiku         morning sun–  a patch of frost     in the holstein’s shadow             reading in bedmy pulse flickeringthe lightly held bookmark    haiku & photo       […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":94,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2926],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pre-06-2006"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6kP1R-17R","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4331","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/94"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4331"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4331\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12821,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4331\/revisions\/12821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}