{"id":12338,"date":"2023-08-21T23:52:23","date_gmt":"2023-08-21T23:52:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/heatherhaley.com\/hh2\/?p=12338"},"modified":"2023-08-21T23:52:23","modified_gmt":"2023-08-21T23:52:23","slug":"arsonists-at-heart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/heatherhaley.com\/hh2\/?p=12338","title":{"rendered":"ARSONISTS AT HEART"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/heatherhaley.com\/hh2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/366609239_10159188625287038_9080896646454876156_n.jpg\"><img data-attachment-id=\"12339\" data-permalink=\"http:\/\/heatherhaley.com\/hh2\/?attachment_id=12339\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/heatherhaley.com\/hh2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/366609239_10159188625287038_9080896646454876156_n.jpg?fit=2048%2C1152\" data-orig-size=\"2048,1152\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;via REUTERS&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;Smoke rises from a wildfire in Tumbler Ridge, British Columbia, Canada, in this screen grab taken from a video, June 8, 2023. BC Wildlife Service\\\/Handout via REUTERS&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"366609239_10159188625287038_9080896646454876156_n\" data-image-description=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/heatherhaley.com\/hh2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/366609239_10159188625287038_9080896646454876156_n.jpg?fit=300%2C169\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/heatherhaley.com\/hh2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/366609239_10159188625287038_9080896646454876156_n.jpg?fit=604%2C340\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-12339\" src=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/heatherhaley.com\/hh2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/366609239_10159188625287038_9080896646454876156_n.jpg?resize=300%2C169\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/heatherhaley.com\/hh2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/366609239_10159188625287038_9080896646454876156_n.jpg?resize=300%2C169 300w, https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/heatherhaley.com\/hh2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/366609239_10159188625287038_9080896646454876156_n.jpg?resize=768%2C432 768w, https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/heatherhaley.com\/hh2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/366609239_10159188625287038_9080896646454876156_n.jpg?resize=1024%2C576 1024w, https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/heatherhaley.com\/hh2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/366609239_10159188625287038_9080896646454876156_n.jpg?w=2048 2048w, https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/heatherhaley.com\/hh2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/366609239_10159188625287038_9080896646454876156_n.jpg?w=1208 1208w, https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/heatherhaley.com\/hh2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/366609239_10159188625287038_9080896646454876156_n.jpg?w=1812 1812w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>As my heart breaks, I send love and best wishes to friends and family in affected areas and a work in progress from my forthcoming collection. Not much solace sorry, just truth telling.<\/p>\n<p><strong>ARSONISTS AT HEART<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Supercharged ambiguity, uncertainty<br \/>\nin overdrive, the opacity of an interminable<br \/>\nsummer of corrosive fumes obscures<br \/>\nculpability as we mince toward oblivion.<\/p>\n<p>Hurly Burly Commerce Fair<br \/>\nand haggling traditions continue,<br \/>\nthe haze\u2019s origin indistinct from cause,<br \/>\nhuman error upon human error,<\/p>\n<p>extinguishing efforts wasted<br \/>\non an alleged civilization<br \/>\nbarrelling toward its expiration date,<br \/>\nbeyond band aids of sea walls,<\/p>\n<p>green treaties and carbon taxes,<br \/>\nour boreal forest so vast<br \/>\nwe burn instead of cut.<br \/>\nArsonists at heart,<\/p>\n<p>we rely upon smoke screens<br \/>\nto keep the status quo<br \/>\npropped up against<br \/>\nthe altar of human industry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As my heart breaks, I send love and best wishes to friends and family in affected areas and a work in progress from my forthcoming collection. Not much solace sorry, just truth telling. ARSONISTS AT HEART Supercharged ambiguity, uncertainty in overdrive, the opacity of an interminable summer of corrosive fumes obscures culpability as we mince [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/heatherhaley.com\/hh2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12338"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/heatherhaley.com\/hh2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/heatherhaley.com\/hh2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/heatherhaley.com\/hh2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/heatherhaley.com\/hh2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12338"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/heatherhaley.com\/hh2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12338\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12340,"href":"http:\/\/heatherhaley.com\/hh2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12338\/revisions\/12340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/heatherhaley.com\/hh2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/heatherhaley.com\/hh2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/heatherhaley.com\/hh2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}