{"id":11047,"date":"2021-06-05T23:07:23","date_gmt":"2021-06-06T03:07:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eastwestliteraryforum.com\/rus\/?post_type=world&#038;p=11047"},"modified":"2021-11-21T10:12:41","modified_gmt":"2021-11-21T15:12:41","slug":"the-thin-place-by-eamon-ocaoineachan","status":"publish","type":"world","link":"https:\/\/eastwestliteraryforum.com\/rus\/world\/the-thin-place-by-eamon-ocaoineachan\/","title":{"rendered":"Eamon O&#8217;Caoineachan. The Thin Place"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Dear Paper\u2014<\/em><br \/>\n<em>where were you when you first began?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was born here in this Appalachian wood\u2014<br \/>\nI come from this forest, from the mountain vale,<br \/>\nout of the dark-green leaves, branches, and the snow\u2014<br \/>\nI know I am a child of the thin place too.<br \/>\nIn the way your roots are a part of the earth,<br \/>\nbut not the earth\u2014in the way I am the blood<br \/>\nof your raw wood, yet I only feel your awe<br \/>\nwhen the hazel-eyed girl strokes her dark words on me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>Paper, who told you the way of the thin place?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe whispered to me through her red-berry lips\u2014<br \/>\n\u2018Paper, you are a thin place too, like the trees.\u2019<br \/>\nShe kissed each letter as each letter kissed me,<br \/>\nher hands bound the red twine over memory.<br \/>\nShe comes from the thin place too, from this forest,<br \/>\nand the mountain vale\u2014she\u2019s a bridge between worlds.<br \/>\nOut of the dark-green leaves, branches, and the snow\u2014<br \/>\nshe casts her spell here and knows she is home too.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>You have spoken true, and<\/em> <em>understand the way<\/em><br \/>\n<em>of the thin place\u2014where you were when you first began. <\/em><br \/>\n<em>Now, Paper, you are free\u2014<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Sincerely, the Tree.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":11048,"parent":0,"template":"","world-type":[139],"class_list":["post-11047","world","type-world","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","world-type-139"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastwestliteraryforum.com\/rus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/world\/11047","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastwestliteraryforum.com\/rus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/world"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastwestliteraryforum.com\/rus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/world"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/eastwestliteraryforum.com\/rus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/world\/11047\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13127,"href":"https:\/\/eastwestliteraryforum.com\/rus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/world\/11047\/revisions\/13127"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastwestliteraryforum.com\/rus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11048"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastwestliteraryforum.com\/rus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"world-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastwestliteraryforum.com\/rus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/world-type?post=11047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}