{"id":610,"date":"2018-04-08T04:49:05","date_gmt":"2018-04-08T04:49:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetembo.com\/clip\/?p=610"},"modified":"2018-04-08T04:49:05","modified_gmt":"2018-04-08T04:49:05","slug":"pictures-of-sand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetembo.com\/clip\/2018\/04\/08\/pictures-of-sand\/","title":{"rendered":"Pictures of Sand"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p>When I close my eyes to go to sleep, I can feel the wind and sand blowing in my face like a day spent on a boat or in the waves, when your body has left the water, but your mind hasn&#8217;t, even in your dreams.<\/p>\n<p>I can&#8217;t open my eyes until I make them tear as the sand grains caught between my eyelid and eye abrade the tissue. I run my hands over my 40 grit hair, dig the grains out of my ear, and rub the sand off my eyebrows.<\/p>\n<p>The dune tendril drifts across the road forming a tapering spine. The car slips over and through the shorter end of the road drift.<\/p>\n<p>A sheet of braided sand hugging the dune falls horizontally like a roaring waterfall turned on its side.<\/p>\n<p>The migrating sand erases my tracks and memory.<\/p>\n<p>Heroic brittle brushes with bright yellow flowers weather the granular assault.<\/p>\n<p>Blowing sand races off the edges of dunes in plumes that persist like the spokes of a spinning wheel.<\/p>\n<p>The sinking sun peeks out from behind a cloud turning the dunes into a desert quilt of shadow and light.<\/p>\n<p>A solitary bush clings tenaciously to the side of a mountain of sand.<\/p>\n<p>A ridge line dips and crests over piles and mountains of sands disappearing into the horizon.<\/p>\n<p>A bush kowtows in humility to the power of the wind and sand.<\/p>\n<p>A silhouetted figure stands on a far peak fading into the dune.<\/p>\n<div class=\"yj6qo\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"adL\"><a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/drive\/folders\/11e35TEoCvIuzCuL9AKQZx7mnP__u-Th1?usp=sharing\">https:\/\/drive.google.com\/drive\/folders\/11e35TEoCvIuzCuL9AKQZx7mnP__u-Th1?usp=sharing<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>When I close my eyes to go to sleep, I can feel the wind and sand blowing in my face like a day spent on a boat or in the waves, when your body has left the water, but your mind hasn&#8217;t, even in your dreams. I can&#8217;t open my eyes until I make them [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-610","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetembo.com\/clip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/610","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetembo.com\/clip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetembo.com\/clip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetembo.com\/clip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetembo.com\/clip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=610"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetembo.com\/clip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/610\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":612,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetembo.com\/clip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/610\/revisions\/612"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetembo.com\/clip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetembo.com\/clip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetembo.com\/clip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}