{"id":200,"date":"2018-11-16T19:14:28","date_gmt":"2018-11-16T19:14:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/?p=200"},"modified":"2018-11-16T19:14:28","modified_gmt":"2018-11-16T19:14:28","slug":"instinct","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/instinct\/","title":{"rendered":"INSTINCT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>INSTINCT<\/strong><br \/>\nThe two elephant matriarchs<br \/>\nknow their herds are nearing<br \/>\neach other. Agitated,<br \/>\nthe two leaders trumpet,<br \/>\npivot in circles,<\/p>\n<p>defending their families. The calf ignores<br \/>\nher mother&#8217;s command and wanders<br \/>\nto investigate. The members<br \/>\nof the other herd circle the youngster,<\/p>\n<p>fold her into their midst. Her mother<br \/>\nsqueals, her trunk tastes the wind<br \/>\nfor the scent of her child. She rushes<br \/>\nthe kidnappers, ivory slicing the air,<br \/>\nbut the calf <\/p>\n<p>is taken further into the opposing herd.<br \/>\nHer mother rips the trees,<br \/>\ntusks grass into the air, stands<br \/>\ncalling even as her herd moves<br \/>\noff to water. Once they take your child,<br \/>\nyou have nothing left to lose.<\/p>\n<p>Granny Smith Magazine Jan 2012<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>INSTINCT The two elephant matriarchs know their herds are nearing each other. Agitated, the two leaders trumpet, pivot in circles, defending their families. The calf ignores her mother&#8217;s command and wanders to investigate. The members of the other herd circle the youngster, fold her into their midst. Her mother squeals, her trunk tastes the wind&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/instinct\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">INSTINCT<\/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-200","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\/200","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=200"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":201,"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200\/revisions\/201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}