{"id":7549,"date":"2019-08-06T12:27:53","date_gmt":"2019-08-06T17:27:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.savebuffalobayou.org\/?p=7549"},"modified":"2019-08-06T12:27:53","modified_gmt":"2019-08-06T17:27:53","slug":"all-water-has-a-perfect-memory-and-is-forever-trying-to-get-back-to-where-it-was","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.savebuffalobayou.org\/?p=7549","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was.&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>August 6, 2019<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou know, they straightened out the Mississippi River in places, to make room for houses and livable acreage. Occasionally the river floods these places. \u2018Floods\u2019 is the word they use, but in fact it is not flooding; it is remembering. Remembering where it used to be. All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was. Writers are like that: remembering where we were, that valley we ran through, what the banks were like, the light that was there and the route back to our original place. It is emotional memory&#8211;what the nerves and the skin remember as well as how it appeared. And a rush of imagination is our \u2018flooding.\u2019\u201d &#8212; <em><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.umass.edu\/brusert\/files\/2013\/03\/Morrison_Site-of-Memory.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Site of Memory,<\/a><\/em> 1995<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Toni_Morrison\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Toni Morrison, February 18, 1931 \u2013 August 5, 2019<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>August 6, 2019 \u201cYou know, they straightened out the Mississippi River in places, to make room for houses and livable acreage. Occasionally the river floods these places. \u2018Floods\u2019 is the word they use, but in fact it is not flooding; it is remembering. Remembering where it used to be. All&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.savebuffalobayou.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7549","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.savebuffalobayou.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.savebuffalobayou.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.savebuffalobayou.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.savebuffalobayou.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7549"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.savebuffalobayou.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7549\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7551,"href":"https:\/\/www.savebuffalobayou.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7549\/revisions\/7551"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.savebuffalobayou.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.savebuffalobayou.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.savebuffalobayou.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}