{"id":141184,"date":"2023-09-03T04:37:47","date_gmt":"2023-09-03T08:37:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=141184"},"modified":"2023-09-03T04:37:47","modified_gmt":"2023-09-03T08:37:47","slug":"hour-eighteen-blackbirds-as-omens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/hour-eighteen-blackbirds-as-omens\/","title":{"rendered":"Hour Eighteen: Blackbirds as Omens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-140019 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/craig-manners-1_-x1Ij8DYI-unsplash-757x1024-1-222x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"308\" height=\"416\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/craig-manners-1_-x1Ij8DYI-unsplash-757x1024-1-222x300.jpg 222w, https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/craig-manners-1_-x1Ij8DYI-unsplash-757x1024-1.jpg 757w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 308px) 100vw, 308px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">I\u2019m confused<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Which one is you:<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">The wide-eyed bird<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Perched on wire<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Like a soldier<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Guarding his territory?<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">The bird taking off<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">In terror<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Turning his back on<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Possibility and commitment?<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Which one is me:<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">The petrified bird<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Clinging to certainty<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">The steady and solid<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">The unchanged?<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">The bird in flight<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Venturing away<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Gleefully<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Seeking the uncharted<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">The infinite?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m confused Which one is you: The wide-eyed bird Perched on wire Like a soldier Guarding his territory? The bird taking off In terror Turning his back on Possibility and commitment? Which one is me: The petrified bird Clinging to certainty The steady and solid&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":853,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[5783],"class_list":["post-141184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","tag-marathon2023"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141184","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\/853"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=141184"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141184\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":141228,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141184\/revisions\/141228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}