{"id":667,"date":"2020-03-26T10:20:54","date_gmt":"2020-03-26T10:20:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/magdalenaball.com\/?p=667"},"modified":"2020-03-26T10:20:54","modified_gmt":"2020-03-26T10:20:54","slug":"ash-forest-at-westerly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/magdalenaball.com\/?p=667","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Ash Forest\u201d at Westerly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/westerlymag.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/trees-255x313.jpg\" width=\"188\" height=\"231\" \/>It seems like a long time ago that we were battling bushfires in our backyard. \u00a0Though we evacuated twice, we were lucky, and well-protected by our incredible local fire brigade &#8211; mostly volunteers. As part of the #authorsforfireys fundraising effort (which raised nearly $500k!), the wonderful people at Westerly have put together a bushfire themed issue in which they both paid authors and donated generously to a registered charity of the author\u2019s choice. I asked for a donation to the lovely <a href=\"https:\/\/www.littleoaksanctuary.org\">Little Oak Sanctuary<\/a> because small sanctuaries were doing it tough, and continuing to do the critical work of caring for a growing number of injured and orphaned animals. This is a special issue indeed, and my poem can be read here:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/westerlymag.com.au\/ash-forest\/\">https:\/\/westerlymag.com.au\/ash-forest\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It seems like a long time ago that we were battling bushfires in our backyard. \u00a0Though we evacuated twice, we were lucky, and well-protected by our incredible local fire brigade &#8211; mostly volunteers. As part of the #authorsforfireys fundraising effort &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/magdalenaball.com\/?p=667\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-667","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/magdalenaball.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/667","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/magdalenaball.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/magdalenaball.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magdalenaball.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magdalenaball.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=667"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/magdalenaball.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/667\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":668,"href":"https:\/\/magdalenaball.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/667\/revisions\/668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/magdalenaball.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magdalenaball.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magdalenaball.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}