{"id":43000,"date":"2017-08-06T08:22:02","date_gmt":"2017-08-06T12:22:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=43000"},"modified":"2017-08-07T12:49:20","modified_gmt":"2017-08-07T16:49:20","slug":"my-kitchen-window","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/my-kitchen-window\/","title":{"rendered":"My Kitchen Window"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pre-dawn darkness<br \/>\nlights my mind with<br \/>\nthe view through my kitchen window.<\/p>\n<p>The seasonal creek<br \/>\nwhite-capped for weeks<br \/>\nlast winter, after the rains charged<br \/>\nour parched patch of earth.<\/p>\n<p>Cooper\u2019s hawk shrieks\u00a0betwixt<br \/>\noak branches.<br \/>\nschooling her<br \/>\nfledglings of the hunt<\/p>\n<p>An owl, white,<br \/>\n&#8220;who&#8221; speaks each night<br \/>\nof mice and rabbits.<\/p>\n<p>Precocious woodpeckers<br \/>\nperforate my wood siding<br \/>\nhiding ranched worms<br \/>\nIn carefully examined\u00a0acorns<\/p>\n<p>And the birds of all colors that flock<br \/>\nto eat green toyon berries<br \/>\nleave plenty for me for<br \/>\njam next Christmas.<\/p>\n<p>Dawn, before the dogs awake,<br \/>\ntimid deer investigate<br \/>\nmy Machu Picchu,<\/p>\n<p>while squirrels emerge from<br \/>\ndry rotting logs &#8211;<br \/>\nenough to burn fifty winters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pre-dawn darkness lights my mind with the view through my kitchen window. The seasonal creek white-capped for weeks last winter, after the rains charged our parched patch of earth. Cooper\u2019s hawk shrieks\u00a0betwixt oak branches. schooling her fledglings of the hunt An owl, white, &#8220;who&#8221; speaks&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":189,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,441],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43000","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-poetry-prompt-responses"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43000","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\/189"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43000"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43000\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43590,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43000\/revisions\/43590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}