{"id":3126,"date":"2016-07-06T11:07:15","date_gmt":"2016-07-06T15:07:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/new.alumnae.mtholyoke.edu\/1961\/?p=3126"},"modified":"2016-07-06T12:02:53","modified_gmt":"2016-07-06T16:02:53","slug":"rockport-july-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.alumnae.mtholyoke.edu\/1961\/rockport-july-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Dottie Shares"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #945c88\"><strong>ROCKPORT JULY 1<\/strong><\/span>,<em> by Dottie Smith Mann<\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #945c88\">Slow sad tears of resignation<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #945c88\">Once and again and again the solitaire reminds me<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #945c88\"> Doing the right thing does not always get a good result<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #945c88\"> Sometimes the game is lost even when it begins well<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #945c88\"> And there are good moments<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #945c88\"> But finally<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #945c88\"> &#8220;There are no more valid moves.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #945c88\">The eight year old within cries softly<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #945c88\"> &#8220;But I did the right things, why can&#8217;t I win?<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #945c88\"> I love him so, we play so well together, he makes me laugh.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #945c88\">I hold \u00a0her in my soft soft arms and kiss her soggy face.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #945c88\"> We look to the blue June sky, the perfect Rockport day,<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #945c88\"> And vow to make it ours&#8230; All the joy and rapture<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #945c88\"> All the beauty of sea and sky and summer flowers<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #945c88\"> All that is more incredibly wonderful<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #945c88\"> Because it will not last.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #945c88\">I take her hand and walk the Lane eastward<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #945c88\"> Toward the sea.<\/span><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ROCKPORT JULY 1, by Dottie Smith Mann Slow sad tears of resignation Once and again and again the solitaire reminds me Doing the right thing does not always get a good result Sometimes the game is lost even when it &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/new.alumnae.mtholyoke.edu\/1961\/rockport-july-1\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":182,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21548],"tags":[21564,25067],"class_list":["post-3126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-literary","tag-dottie","tag-rockport"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.alumnae.mtholyoke.edu\/1961\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3126","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.alumnae.mtholyoke.edu\/1961\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.alumnae.mtholyoke.edu\/1961\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.alumnae.mtholyoke.edu\/1961\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/182"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.alumnae.mtholyoke.edu\/1961\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3126"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.alumnae.mtholyoke.edu\/1961\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3126\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.alumnae.mtholyoke.edu\/1961\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.alumnae.mtholyoke.edu\/1961\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.alumnae.mtholyoke.edu\/1961\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}