{"id":208,"date":"2018-11-16T19:16:39","date_gmt":"2018-11-16T19:16:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/?p=208"},"modified":"2018-11-16T19:16:39","modified_gmt":"2018-11-16T19:16:39","slug":"loss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/loss\/","title":{"rendered":"LOSS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>LOSS<\/strong><br \/>\n*<br \/>\nThe meadowlark perches on the fence<br \/>\noverlooking the remains of its nest. Red fox<br \/>\nand black snake were not the culprits.<br \/>\nThe grass was cut and baled.<\/p>\n<p>*<br \/>\nOnce a man, twice a child.<br \/>\nJust a few bites of sandwich is all he eats,<br \/>\nshe, not much more. His wife watches him fill his pill box,<br \/>\nmonitors every breath. Sits with him every night.<\/p>\n<p>*<br \/>\nArms flapping to some internal rhythm,<br \/>\na mother pushes her son to the next appointment<br \/>\nin a custom wheelchair: pads hold his head.<br \/>\nShe talks to him, no matter that he looks through her.<\/p>\n<p>*<br \/>\nPerched on the fence,<br \/>\nmeadowlark sings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LOSS * The meadowlark perches on the fence overlooking the remains of its nest. Red fox and black snake were not the culprits. The grass was cut and baled. * Once a man, twice a child. Just a few bites of sandwich is all he eats, she, not much more. His wife watches him fill&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/loss\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">LOSS<\/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-208","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\/208","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=208"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":209,"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208\/revisions\/209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}