{"id":49083,"date":"2019-06-22T13:12:18","date_gmt":"2019-06-22T17:12:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=49083"},"modified":"2019-06-22T13:12:18","modified_gmt":"2019-06-22T17:12:18","slug":"front-door-nester","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/front-door-nester\/","title":{"rendered":"Front Door Nester"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Front Door Nester<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>It sat upon the front door light well made<\/p>\n<p>Needing to move the roost before the eggs arrived<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The human carried the empty nest to the barn<\/p>\n<p>Settling it down on a rough hewn beam<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Instructing the mother-to-be kindly yet firmly<\/p>\n<p>To find a more convenient place for the children<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Overnight the nester built a new grand liar<\/p>\n<p>Straw and mud anchored to the same black lamp<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Resigned she was allowed to stay as the human<\/p>\n<p>Studied robin gestation and maiden flight<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The doorway remained dark four weeks<\/p>\n<p>Using the old porch door an inconvenience<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Respectfully observed the babies arrived<\/p>\n<p>Fed by a proper mother working full time<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Feathers filled in on popping heads<\/p>\n<p>Exposed wide mouths lusted for food<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>It would be a Friday the human surprised<\/p>\n<p>Grieved the empty nest<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>TobeTT\u00a0 #4<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Front Door Nester &nbsp; It sat upon the front door light well made Needing to move the roost before the eggs arrived &nbsp; The human carried the empty nest to the barn Settling it down on a rough hewn beam &nbsp; Instructing the mother-to-be kindly&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":273,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49083","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\/273"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49083"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49083\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49143,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49083\/revisions\/49143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}