{"id":757,"date":"2022-02-03T06:00:55","date_gmt":"2022-02-03T06:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ourartsmagazine.com\/kathykmcclellan\/?p=757"},"modified":"2022-02-03T06:05:41","modified_gmt":"2022-02-03T06:05:41","slug":"please-close-the-window","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ourartsmagazine.com\/kathykmcclellan\/2022\/02\/03\/please-close-the-window\/","title":{"rendered":"Please Close The Window"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-758\" src=\"https:\/\/ourartsmagazine.com\/kathykmcclellan\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/02\/2021-08-21-007CrpRzGrScDNRCltySmFxkkmRSdOAM-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ourartsmagazine.com\/kathykmcclellan\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/02\/2021-08-21-007CrpRzGrScDNRCltySmFxkkmRSdOAM-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ourartsmagazine.com\/kathykmcclellan\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/02\/2021-08-21-007CrpRzGrScDNRCltySmFxkkmRSdOAM-272x182.jpg 272w, https:\/\/ourartsmagazine.com\/kathykmcclellan\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/02\/2021-08-21-007CrpRzGrScDNRCltySmFxkkmRSdOAM.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Today&#8217;s Blog Post is a very short piece that was originally written for an Our Arts Magazine Writing Skills Task #1008.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The rain pelting down on the metal roof was deafening.\u00a0 The gentle shower had turned into a fierce storm.\u00a0 She had started to drift off to sleep when the first drizzles cooled the stifling heat of the day. But now that the raindrops sounded like rocks pelting the roof she was wide awake.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>As she sat up on one elbow she could see her husband\u2019s silhouette as he stood between the window sheers that were flying on either side of him.\u00a0 The wind was whipping the light weight material as easily as a feather floats on air.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>A chill swept over her as she watched raindrops flying into the room.\u00a0 \u201cPlease close the window and come back to bed.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Watching him close the window and turning towards her she sunk back into the sheets.\u00a0 As the storm calmed down she quickly slipped into dreamland.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text-justify\">Today&#8217;s Blog Post is a very short piece that was originally written for an Our Arts Magazine Writing Skills Task #1008. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":758,"comment_status":"open","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,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[789,788,791,784,786,493,781,785,787,790,782,783,590,685],"class_list":["post-757","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","tag-chill","tag-curtains","tag-dreamland","tag-drizzles","tag-husband","tag-rain","tag-rain-drops","tag-roof","tag-sheers","tag-sheets","tag-shower","tag-sleep","tag-storm","tag-window"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ourartsmagazine.com\/kathykmcclellan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/757","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ourartsmagazine.com\/kathykmcclellan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ourartsmagazine.com\/kathykmcclellan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourartsmagazine.com\/kathykmcclellan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourartsmagazine.com\/kathykmcclellan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=757"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ourartsmagazine.com\/kathykmcclellan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/757\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourartsmagazine.com\/kathykmcclellan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/758"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ourartsmagazine.com\/kathykmcclellan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourartsmagazine.com\/kathykmcclellan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourartsmagazine.com\/kathykmcclellan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}