{"id":118037,"date":"2022-06-25T23:45:21","date_gmt":"2022-06-26T03:45:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/?p=118037"},"modified":"2022-07-06T21:58:02","modified_gmt":"2022-07-07T01:58:02","slug":"wild-turkeys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/wild-turkeys\/","title":{"rendered":"Wild Turkeys"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chortling birds, amused by my sleepy morns<br \/>\nchatter and clatter past my window<\/p>\n<p>to the trees where roosts the hens and chicks<br \/>\nof buzzards, turkeys, eagles and hawks.<\/p>\n<p>Turkeys are the funniest things<br \/>\nwith Toms that strut and puff like kings,<\/p>\n<p>Tail feathers spread and beards abloom<br \/>\ngobbling for a quick boom boom,<\/p>\n<p>say \u201clook at me! Big as a tree!<br \/>\nFine tail feathers, my pedigree!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Amused, I see the hens ignore their mating calls<br \/>\nto jump beyond for worms just past the wall.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chortling birds, amused by my sleepy morns chatter and clatter past my window to the trees where roosts the hens and chicks of buzzards, turkeys, eagles and hawks. Turkeys are the funniest things with Toms that strut and puff like kings, Tail feathers spread and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":189,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,441],"tags":[1411,965],"class_list":["post-118037","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-poetry-prompt-responses","tag-birds","tag-humor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118037","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/189"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118037"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118037\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":124693,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118037\/revisions\/124693"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}