{"id":6057,"date":"2026-04-21T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-21T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/novusliterary.com\/?p=6057"},"modified":"2026-04-01T23:14:15","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T04:14:15","slug":"pink-cloud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novusliterary.com\/2025-archive\/pink-cloud\/","title":{"rendered":"Pink Cloud"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse\">              <em>Sobriety: Day 146<\/em><br><br>It was supposed to happen by now.<br>The dopamine fields strained to collapse<br>were supposed to flare and blossom to life,<br>if only briefly, like a wildflower bloom in<br>Death Valley after the rarest of rainfall.<br>Not a sustainable harvest, but a promise<br>of something worthwhile. The clouds are<br>gunmetal gray and the field crunches under<br>foot but if I just keep walking the<br>moisture regime may eventually change.<br>Topography may be more forgiving. <br>The coins in my pocket more lustrous.<br>The people I meet will still care about coins<br>and none will remember the things I\u2019ve done.<br><\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sobriety: Day 146It was supposed to happen by now.The dopamine fields strained to collapsewere supposed to flare and blossom to life,if only briefly, like a wildflower bloom inDeath Valley after the rarest of rainfall.Not a sustainable harvest, but a promiseof something worthwhile. The clouds aregunmetal gray and the field crunches underfoot but if I just [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":43,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_editorskit_title_hidden":false,"_editorskit_reading_time":0,"_editorskit_is_block_options_detached":false,"_editorskit_block_options_position":"{}","_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"art_contributors":[],"literary_contributors":[470],"class_list":["post-6057","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry","literary_contributors-rutter-chad"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/novusliterary.com\/2025-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6057","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/novusliterary.com\/2025-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/novusliterary.com\/2025-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novusliterary.com\/2025-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/43"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novusliterary.com\/2025-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6057"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/novusliterary.com\/2025-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6057\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6058,"href":"https:\/\/novusliterary.com\/2025-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6057\/revisions\/6058"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/novusliterary.com\/2025-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novusliterary.com\/2025-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novusliterary.com\/2025-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6057"},{"taxonomy":"art_contributors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novusliterary.com\/2025-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/art_contributors?post=6057"},{"taxonomy":"literary_contributors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novusliterary.com\/2025-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/literary_contributors?post=6057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}