{"id":128875,"date":"2023-09-02T11:42:38","date_gmt":"2023-09-02T15:42:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=128875"},"modified":"2023-09-02T11:43:39","modified_gmt":"2023-09-02T15:43:39","slug":"manzanita-songs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/manzanita-songs\/","title":{"rendered":"Manzanita songs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">A crow calls,<br \/>\ncelebrating the morning.<br \/>\nI tap my Merlin app to chronicle<br \/>\nthe answered greetings of<br \/>\nthe chestnut-backed Chickadees.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Soon others are joining in song:<br \/>\na Stellar\u2019s Jay, a Brown Creeper,<br \/>\nnow the barn swallows and a<br \/>\nred crossbill.<br \/>\nThese are not my desert birds.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">I drink in my coffee and peer up<br \/>\nthrough the branches<br \/>\nof the towering firs,<br \/>\ninto the cloudless blue sky.<br \/>\nI feel untethered, free.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">The wind rustles the leaves,<br \/>\ndogs bark today\u2019s messages and<br \/>\nfar-away voices catch in the breeze.<br \/>\nIn the distance, I can hear the waves:<br \/>\nthe ocean beckons.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A crow calls, celebrating the morning. I tap my Merlin app to chronicle the answered greetings of the chestnut-backed Chickadees. Soon others are joining in song: a Stellar\u2019s Jay, a Brown Creeper, now the barn swallows and a red crossbill. These are not my desert&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1287,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-128875","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128875","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\/1287"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=128875"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128875\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":129205,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128875\/revisions\/129205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}