{"id":180,"date":"2018-11-16T19:11:06","date_gmt":"2018-11-16T19:11:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/?p=180"},"modified":"2018-11-16T19:11:06","modified_gmt":"2018-11-16T19:11:06","slug":"squirrel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/squirrel\/","title":{"rendered":"SQUIRREL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>SQUIRREL<\/strong><br \/>\nI was distracted by other thoughts:<\/p>\n<p>The squirrel darted left, right, I didn&#8217;t slow or hit the brakes<br \/>\nbecause I was thinking:<\/p>\n<p>Dad&#8217;s first Thanksgiving alone.<br \/>\nIs the paint thinner and all that oil still in the basement?<br \/>\nIt is hard to go home.<\/p>\n<p>He ran under the wheels. I looked back,<br \/>\nhis white belly shone in the sun.<\/p>\n<p>This morning, wings outstretched as if in prayer,<br \/>\nthe vultures warmed in the dead tree.<\/p>\n<p>The Foundling Review 8\/2012<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SQUIRREL I was distracted by other thoughts: The squirrel darted left, right, I didn&#8217;t slow or hit the brakes because I was thinking: Dad&#8217;s first Thanksgiving alone. Is the paint thinner and all that oil still in the basement? It is hard to go home. He ran under the wheels. I looked back, his white&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/squirrel\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">SQUIRREL<\/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-180","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\/180","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=180"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":181,"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180\/revisions\/181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}