{"id":70528,"date":"2020-06-27T19:44:24","date_gmt":"2020-06-27T23:44:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=70528"},"modified":"2020-06-27T22:34:21","modified_gmt":"2020-06-28T02:34:21","slug":"a-starling-being","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/a-starling-being\/","title":{"rendered":"A Starling Being"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-70535\" src=\"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/e1fcae6b4aedeb80f2ed81b33b19412c-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/e1fcae6b4aedeb80f2ed81b33b19412c-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/e1fcae6b4aedeb80f2ed81b33b19412c.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Thunder shook the horizon in the land of Nin<br \/>\nAs the Hoboken waited for the storm to begin<br \/>\nThe stocky grassland race hoped for a prophetic child<br \/>\nA starling being with gift to tame great beasts in the wild<br \/>\nAs an adult he&#8217;d regain their homeland lost long ago<br \/>\nTo the cruel Kek-mim raiders from the Forgotten Snow<br \/>\nCities and loved ones left encased forever in ice<br \/>\nFor their resistance,\u00a0they paid a terrible price<br \/>\nBut the young one would mend a painful past<br \/>\nEars perked as due north they heard a blast<br \/>\nThe motley group shuffled hurriedly forward<br \/>\nAnd arrived to hear cries from a great orchard<br \/>\nA Hoboken baby screamed, from tiny blankets born<br \/>\nStuffed inside a tree trunk, by lightning shorn<br \/>\nMatronly hands clutched the boy as all danced and chattered<br \/>\nSo much lost through the years, now justice was all that mattered.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Thunder shook the horizon in the land of Nin As the Hoboken waited for the storm to begin The stocky grassland race hoped for a prophetic child A starling being with gift to tame great beasts in the wild As an adult he&#8217;d regain&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1065,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70528","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\/1065"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70528"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70528\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70540,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70528\/revisions\/70540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}