{"id":39986,"date":"2017-08-06T00:00:08","date_gmt":"2017-08-06T04:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=39986"},"modified":"2017-08-06T00:00:08","modified_gmt":"2017-08-06T04:00:08","slug":"the-odious-rooster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/the-odious-rooster\/","title":{"rendered":"The Odious Rooster"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the first rays of day,<br \/>\nthe rooster stirs, restless.<br \/>\nHe grumbles a bit about<br \/>\nthe slow rise of the sun<br \/>\nbefore he begins to crow.<br \/>\nThe rooster is angry all day<br \/>\nbecause he never calls<br \/>\nas loudly as he wishes, and<br \/>\nhe knows the answers to nothing,<br \/>\nexcept where the best bits of grubs<br \/>\nare kept, and which is the finest<br \/>\nof the hens, and why.<\/p>\n<p>But at night, late, the rooster begins<br \/>\nto dream he is Gullinkambi,<br \/>\nthe golden-combed rooster the height<br \/>\nof a horse who roams the Old Norse mountains.<br \/>\nThe rooster has dreamt of the unceasing<br \/>\ncrescendo of Gullinkambi\u2019s roar<br \/>\nringing in the final days of the earth.<br \/>\nHe knows Gullinkambi would tell<br \/>\nwhatever you want to know,<br \/>\nand a lot more. He knows which wolf<br \/>\nswallowed Odin, and who stole<br \/>\nwhat horse and when.<\/p>\n<p>When morning comes again,<br \/>\nthe rooster mutter and moans<br \/>\nas the day brightens. Though he<br \/>\nhones his spurs, and learned<br \/>\na stompy dance, his stature<br \/>\nis in his dreams. When he steps<br \/>\ninto the sun, he will crow every day<br \/>\nas loud as he can, forever disappointed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the first rays of day, the rooster stirs, restless. He grumbles a bit about the slow rise of the sun before he begins to crow. The rooster is angry all day because he never calls as loudly as he wishes, and he knows the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":972,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39986","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\/972"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39986"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39986\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39991,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39986\/revisions\/39991"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}