{"id":51839,"date":"2019-06-22T17:50:04","date_gmt":"2019-06-22T21:50:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=51839"},"modified":"2019-06-22T17:50:04","modified_gmt":"2019-06-22T21:50:04","slug":"the-feather-thief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/the-feather-thief\/","title":{"rendered":"The Feather Thief"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A peculiar heist,<\/p>\n<p>Not diamonds, or money,<\/p>\n<p>But a feather tryst.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Ornithological sabotage,<\/p>\n<p>Born from a feather obsession.<\/p>\n<p>Crime scene in Tring<\/p>\n<p>from the Natural History Museum.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Feathers from specimens<\/p>\n<p>Centuries old;<\/p>\n<p>Species from long ago<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Extinct.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Stuffed into a bag,<\/p>\n<p>No reverence<\/p>\n<p>For the history<\/p>\n<p>Or the species.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Ornate, rare feathers,<\/p>\n<p>Treasures<\/p>\n<p>For fishing<\/p>\n<p>Has become an art.<\/p>\n<p>Fly-tiers\u2019 lips<\/p>\n<p>Are sealed<\/p>\n<p>About the crime.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou don\u2019t want to piss us off.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A peculiar heist, Not diamonds, or money, But a feather tryst. &nbsp; Ornithological sabotage, Born from a feather obsession. Crime scene in Tring from the Natural History Museum. &nbsp; Feathers from specimens Centuries old; Species from long ago &nbsp; Extinct. &nbsp; Stuffed into a bag,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":260,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51839","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\/260"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51839"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51839\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51862,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51839\/revisions\/51862"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}