{"id":133,"date":"2018-11-16T19:02:06","date_gmt":"2018-11-16T19:02:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/?p=133"},"modified":"2018-11-16T19:02:06","modified_gmt":"2018-11-16T19:02:06","slug":"hunting-the-children-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/hunting-the-children-2\/","title":{"rendered":"HUNTING THE CHILDREN"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>HUNTING THE CHILDREN <\/strong><br \/>\nLord of the lagoon,<br \/>\na Great Egret stalks<br \/>\namong the reeds.<br \/>\nA baby duck strays,<br \/>\nhuddles between<br \/>\ncattail stems. <\/p>\n<p>Head tilted,<br \/>\nthe plumed hunter<br \/>\nsnakes forward,<br \/>\nunblinking,<br \/>\nit spears<br \/>\nthe duckling,<br \/>\nstilts to dry ground.<br \/>\nFrom the yellow beak,<br \/>\nwebbed feet dangle. <\/p>\n<p>Green Hills Literary Lantern<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HUNTING THE CHILDREN Lord of the lagoon, a Great Egret stalks among the reeds. A baby duck strays, huddles between cattail stems. Head tilted, the plumed hunter snakes forward, unblinking, it spears the duckling, stilts to dry ground. From the yellow beak, webbed feet dangle. Green Hills Literary Lantern<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poems","category-published-poems"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":134,"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133\/revisions\/134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}