{"id":131182,"date":"2023-09-02T17:00:36","date_gmt":"2023-09-02T21:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=131182"},"modified":"2023-09-02T22:44:32","modified_gmt":"2023-09-03T02:44:32","slug":"5-pm-an-ode-for-the-birds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/5-pm-an-ode-for-the-birds\/","title":{"rendered":"5 PM &#8211; An Ode for the Birds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>An Ode for the Birds<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">For Luna, Matilda, Minerva, Obi, Hazel, Freyja, Reddington, and Carson of the Eagle Creek Ornithology Center<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Bird of prey, with the bad reputation<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">You&#8217;re wild, you&#8217;re free\u2013<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">You lack the expected sweet disposition.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">You belong here, in the great outdoors.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">No walls to bind you, no windows, no floors.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Diurnal\u2013 raptor<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">How they seize and carry,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">prey to perch and fill their empty bellies.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Horned\u2013beaks and talons,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">discernment in their eyes.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">As they look upon our faces,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">we are the problem.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An Ode for the Birds For Luna, Matilda, Minerva, Obi, Hazel, Freyja, Reddington, and Carson of the Eagle Creek Ornithology Center &nbsp; Bird of prey, with the bad reputation You&#8217;re wild, you&#8217;re free\u2013 You lack the expected sweet disposition. &nbsp; You belong here, in the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4777,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-131182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131182","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\/4777"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131182"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131182\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":131196,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131182\/revisions\/131196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}