{"id":139081,"date":"2015-08-28T23:27:21","date_gmt":"2015-08-28T23:27:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2015\/08\/28\/the-french-called-this-time-of-day-lheure\/"},"modified":"2015-08-28T23:27:21","modified_gmt":"2015-08-28T23:27:21","slug":"the-french-called-this-time-of-day-lheure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2015\/08\/28\/the-french-called-this-time-of-day-lheure\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>The French called this time of day \u201cl\u2019heure bleue.\u201d To the English it was \u201cthe gloaming.\u201d The very word \u201cgloaming\u201d reverberates, echoes\u2014the gloaming, the glimmer, the glitter, the glisten, the glamour\u2014carrying in its consonants the images of houses shuttering, gardens darkening, grass-lined rivers slipping through the shadows. During the blue nights you think the end of day will never come. As the blue nights draw to a close (and they will, and they do) you experience an actual chill, at the moment you first notice: the blue light is going, the days are already shortening, the summer is gone.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class='attribution'>Joan Didion, <i>Blue Nights<\/i>\u00a0 (via <a href=\"http:\/\/h-o-r-n-g-r-y.tumblr.com\/\" class=\"tumblr_blog\" target=\"_blank\">h-o-r-n-g-r-y<\/a>)<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The French called this time of day \u201cl\u2019heure bleue.\u201d To the English it was \u201cthe gloaming.\u201d The very word \u201cgloaming\u201d reverberates, echoes\u2014the gloaming, the glimmer, the glitter, the glisten, the glamour\u2014carrying in its consonants the images of houses shuttering, gardens darkening, grass-lined rivers slipping through the shadows. During the blue nights you think the end &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2015\/08\/28\/the-french-called-this-time-of-day-lheure\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[16112,53,4,1530],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139081"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=139081"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139081\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}