{"id":83914,"date":"2026-04-19T04:51:32","date_gmt":"2026-04-19T12:51:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/privatenook.com\/?p=83914"},"modified":"2026-04-19T04:52:14","modified_gmt":"2026-04-19T12:52:14","slug":"an-island","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/privatenook.com\/?p=83914","title":{"rendered":"An Island"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Cerulean Blue<br>A childhood book<br>Ingested when I had no words for the world<br>My imagination \/ My universe<br>She was alone, like me<br>Isolated<br>Mute<br>Surrounded by nature<br>Gazing out over the sky and sea<br>With a dog named Rohu<br>Whale bones her home<br>Like the bones of my ancestor held me <br>Many years without a voice<br>Waiting for somebody to discover me \/ her<br>Not knowing I had to discover myself first<br>A soul developing in solitude<br>With only nature as guidance<br>A feral wildness sets in<br>And becomes a part of you<br>So that nothing..<br> even after civilized and found <br>..could tear the animal out of you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/privatenook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/IMG_8091-scaled.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/privatenook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/IMG_8091-768x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-83919\" srcset=\"https:\/\/privatenook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/IMG_8091-768x1024.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/privatenook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/IMG_8091-225x300.jpeg 225w, https:\/\/privatenook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/IMG_8091-1152x1536.jpeg 1152w, https:\/\/privatenook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/IMG_8091-1536x2048.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/privatenook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/IMG_8091-scaled.jpeg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cerulean BlueA childhood bookIngested when I had no words for the worldMy imagination \/ My universeShe was alone, like meIsolatedMuteSurrounded by natureGazing out over the sky and seaWith a dog named RohuWhale bones her homeLike the bones of my ancestor &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/privatenook.com\/?p=83914\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-83914","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-beginning"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/privatenook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83914","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/privatenook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/privatenook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/privatenook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/privatenook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=83914"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/privatenook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83914\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":83921,"href":"https:\/\/privatenook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83914\/revisions\/83921"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/privatenook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=83914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/privatenook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=83914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/privatenook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=83914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- WP Super Cache is installed but broken. The constant WPCACHEHOME must be set in the file wp-config.php and point at the WP Super Cache plugin directory. -->