{"id":140869,"date":"2023-09-03T04:19:27","date_gmt":"2023-09-03T08:19:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=140869"},"modified":"2023-09-03T04:20:45","modified_gmt":"2023-09-03T08:20:45","slug":"poem-for-hour-twenty-20-24","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/poem-for-hour-twenty-20-24\/","title":{"rendered":"Poem for Hour Twenty (20\/24)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Common Raven | <\/strong><em>Corvus corax |\u00a0 <\/em><em>L 24&#8243; (61 cm)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Large, with long, heavy bills, appearing on a bracelet I lost that very same road trip, but I didn&#8217;t stop thinking about ravens for a single day after I first time I saw them. Shaggy throats, I noted, but didn&#8217;t know what it meant, as I kept squinting at every black bird with a pulse to see if I could identify the bird to which I was newly and wholly devoted.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Voice:\u00a0<\/strong>I learned to hear, that trip, what a raven really was. It wasn&#8217;t just the croaks and caws, it&#8217;s clacking and clicking and contemplative calls. I bought a DVD all about ravens and that narrator, too, had a voice I could listen to for hours.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Range:\u00a0<\/strong>Found in a variety of habitats&#8211; hey, me and you both, great gothic bird. Can be seen from mountains, to coasts, to deserts. On occasion, a mated pair will nest and pass on their stunning genetics in the middle of pandemic and give you a reason to get outside every day, just to see if their little one has made the great leap from the government building&#8217;s window ledge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Common Raven | Corvus corax |\u00a0 L 24&#8243; (61 cm) Large, with long, heavy bills, appearing on a bracelet I lost that very same road trip, but I didn&#8217;t stop thinking about ravens for a single day after I first time I saw them. Shaggy&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-140869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140869","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\/5262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=140869"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140869\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":141086,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140869\/revisions\/141086"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}