{"id":166,"date":"2018-11-16T19:08:38","date_gmt":"2018-11-16T19:08:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/?p=166"},"modified":"2018-11-16T19:08:38","modified_gmt":"2018-11-16T19:08:38","slug":"waiting-for-winter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/waiting-for-winter\/","title":{"rendered":"WAITING FOR WINTER"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>WAITING FOR WINTER<\/strong><br \/>\nBasking in the sunlight to shed<br \/>\nthe cold night&#8217;s stupor, grasshoppers<br \/>\nrest on dried grasses.<\/p>\n<p>Bees hunt autumn aster<br \/>\nand Russian olive for fall&#8217;s<br \/>\ndiminishing nectar.<\/p>\n<p>In prairies, pot-holed<br \/>\nbreeding grounds hide invading<br \/>\nchemicals in clear water.<br \/>\nThe juvenile Marbled Godwit<br \/>\nmigrates east, pausing<br \/>\nat man-made tidal pools.<br \/>\nBorn with snarled beak,<br \/>\nit cannot probe the sand for food.<\/p>\n<p>The bees hoard honey<br \/>\nto survive the frosts,<br \/>\ngrasshopper eggs overwinter<br \/>\nin leaf mulch. Both prepare<br \/>\nfor the next generation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WAITING FOR WINTER Basking in the sunlight to shed the cold night&#8217;s stupor, grasshoppers rest on dried grasses. Bees hunt autumn aster and Russian olive for fall&#8217;s diminishing nectar. In prairies, pot-holed breeding grounds hide invading chemicals in clear water. The juvenile Marbled Godwit migrates east, pausing at man-made tidal pools. Born with snarled beak,&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/waiting-for-winter\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">WAITING FOR WINTER<\/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-166","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\/166","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=166"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":167,"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166\/revisions\/167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}