{"id":548,"date":"2026-10-14T16:23:37","date_gmt":"2026-10-14T16:23:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/?p=548"},"modified":"2026-10-14T16:23:37","modified_gmt":"2026-10-14T16:23:37","slug":"backpacking-in-the-mountains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/backpacking-in-the-mountains\/","title":{"rendered":"Backpacking in The Mountains"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Breaking Apart\u2014August 2023<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sun breaks over the horizon,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">opening a new day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But now you have broken<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">off all conversation. What have<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I done to haltour speaking<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">with respect to each other? &nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It has put a brake on friendship.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I don\u2019t feel broken hearted,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I guess I should be. It was<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">a long friendship but as you<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">said all things must come to an end.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So I go along with my day,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">your memory fading<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">like a breaking wave on the beach.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Deep South Magazine<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Apr 2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Breaking Apart\u2014August 2023 Sun breaks over the horizon, opening a new day. But now you have broken off all conversation. What have I done to haltour speaking with respect to each other? &nbsp;&nbsp; It has put a brake on friendship. I don\u2019t feel broken hearted, I guess I should be. It was a long friendship&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/backpacking-in-the-mountains\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Backpacking in The Mountains<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poems","category-published-poems"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=548"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":549,"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548\/revisions\/549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}