{"id":1027,"date":"2025-04-02T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-04-02T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.imaginarygardens.org\/?p=1027"},"modified":"2025-04-01T13:51:09","modified_gmt":"2025-04-01T17:51:09","slug":"as-described-in-oranges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.imaginarygardens.org\/index.php\/2025\/04\/02\/as-described-in-oranges\/","title":{"rendered":"as described in oranges"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\">By Anna Trevathan<\/h5>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" src=\"https:\/\/www.imaginarygardens.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/orange.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1076\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.imaginarygardens.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/orange.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.imaginarygardens.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/orange-500x334.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>once i was trying to explain to someone what it was like when you were gone,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>and i told them that it was like taking all of the skin off of an orange,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>digging through the small white layers of veins,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>and ripping the bare orange in half.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>to discover that the person you used to share them with isn\u2019t here.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>that for the rest of your life, you will eat it&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>you will carry this orange and it will stain<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>your heart, your hands and the smell will linger<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>and it smells ripe and sweet to spite you&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>because they will not smile at you,&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>and grab that orange slice out of your hand,&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>instead they will lie in the ground,&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>and i will spread orange seeds across a grave,&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>praying that the seeds turn into an orange tree,&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>and i can share my oranges with them once again.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Anna Trevathan once i was trying to explain to someone what it was like when you were gone, and i told them that it was like taking all of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1076,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_EventAllDay":false,"_EventTimezone":"","_EventStartDate":"","_EventEndDate":"","_EventStartDateUTC":"","_EventEndDateUTC":"","_EventShowMap":false,"_EventShowMapLink":false,"_EventURL":"","_EventCost":"","_EventCostDescription":"","_EventCurrencySymbol":"","_EventCurrencyCode":"","_EventCurrencyPosition":"","_EventDateTimeSeparator":"","_EventTimeRangeSeparator":"","_EventOrganizerID":[],"_EventVenueID":[],"_OrganizerEmail":"","_OrganizerPhone":"","_OrganizerWebsite":"","_VenueAddress":"","_VenueCity":"","_VenueCountry":"","_VenueProvince":"","_VenueState":"","_VenueZip":"","_VenuePhone":"","_VenueURL":"","_VenueStateProvince":"","_VenueLat":"","_VenueLng":"","_VenueShowMap":false,"_VenueShowMapLink":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"series":[],"class_list":["post-1027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-creative"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imaginarygardens.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1027","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imaginarygardens.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imaginarygardens.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imaginarygardens.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imaginarygardens.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1027"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.imaginarygardens.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1027\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1078,"href":"https:\/\/www.imaginarygardens.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1027\/revisions\/1078"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imaginarygardens.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1076"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imaginarygardens.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imaginarygardens.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imaginarygardens.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1027"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imaginarygardens.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=1027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}