{"id":143,"date":"2018-11-16T19:04:32","date_gmt":"2018-11-16T19:04:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/?p=143"},"modified":"2018-11-16T19:04:32","modified_gmt":"2018-11-16T19:04:32","slug":"mist-net","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/mist-net\/","title":{"rendered":"MIST NET"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>MIST NET <\/strong><br \/>\nThe painted bunting cannot escape<br \/>\nthe mesh. Wings and head tangled,<br \/>\nfeet twisted in black net. It rests in the net,<br \/>\nbegins to flutter at the bander&#8217;s approach.<br \/>\nQuietly, she encloses its wings in her hand.<br \/>\nPulling the net from its feet, wings, head,<br \/>\nit flaps and pecks at her fingers, the angle<br \/>\nof the sun that drives it to flight fading for the day.<br \/>\nShe places the rainbow bird in a white bag<br \/>\nPainted buntings have taken this route<\/p>\n<p>since time has been measured. Only Archaeopteyx<br \/>\ncan reveal if flight grew from a glide to another tree,<br \/>\na hop to a branch. Its ancestors have seen the growth<br \/>\nand retreat of great ice, birds follow the same path<br \/>\ndespite clear-cut forests and barrier islands<\/p>\n<p>swept clean by Katrina. The bander<br \/>\nplaces a silver bracelet on its leg, measures<br \/>\nwing, tail, and bill. It rests for a moment<br \/>\nin the bander&#8217;s hand<br \/>\nthis strange perch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MIST NET The painted bunting cannot escape the mesh. Wings and head tangled, feet twisted in black net. It rests in the net, begins to flutter at the bander&#8217;s approach. Quietly, she encloses its wings in her hand. Pulling the net from its feet, wings, head, it flaps and pecks at her fingers, the angle&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/mist-net\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">MIST NET<\/span><\/a><\/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-143","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\/143","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=143"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":144,"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143\/revisions\/144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}