{"id":196,"date":"2018-11-16T19:13:55","date_gmt":"2018-11-16T19:13:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/?p=196"},"modified":"2018-11-16T19:13:55","modified_gmt":"2018-11-16T19:13:55","slug":"question-mark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/question-mark\/","title":{"rendered":"QUESTION MARK"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>QUESTION MARK<\/strong><br \/>\nAt the gravel pit pond last year, trees stood tall.<br \/>\nMaple crimson and gold, redbud yellow reflected<br \/>\nfrom green water to autumn blue sky. Song sparrows<br \/>\nslept in the cedar. Wood ducks swam in the swamp,<br \/>\nsliders basked on the logs.<\/p>\n<p>This fall, someone must have played with a bulldozer.<br \/>\nGnarled cedar roots reach towards the sky, the maples&#8217;<br \/>\ntrunks lie half split along the banks, the swamp empty.<\/p>\n<p>In the cool morning, it suns on a cut trunk,<br \/>\nburnt orange wings with silvered edges,<br \/>\nmatching black spots on each wing.<br \/>\nWarmed, the butterfly closes its wings,<br \/>\nin the center a tiny metallic question mark.<\/p>\n<p>Earthspeak Mar 2012<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>QUESTION MARK At the gravel pit pond last year, trees stood tall. Maple crimson and gold, redbud yellow reflected from green water to autumn blue sky. Song sparrows slept in the cedar. Wood ducks swam in the swamp, sliders basked on the logs. This fall, someone must have played with a bulldozer. Gnarled cedar roots&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/question-mark\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">QUESTION MARK<\/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-196","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\/196","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=196"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":197,"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196\/revisions\/197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}