{"id":214,"date":"2018-11-16T19:17:35","date_gmt":"2018-11-16T19:17:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/?p=214"},"modified":"2018-11-16T19:17:35","modified_gmt":"2018-11-16T19:17:35","slug":"winter-wheat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/winter-wheat\/","title":{"rendered":"WINTER WHEAT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>WINTER WHEAT<\/strong><br \/>\nOctobers, we would watch it sprout<br \/>\nand wait for Spring to grow. I hung to the back crease<br \/>\nof Dad&#8217;s pants. Short enough to walk between his legs,<br \/>\nlike wind weaving through straight, green <\/p>\n<p>stems of May. Don&#8217;t remember when the stalks<br \/>\nyellowed. Gradually, seed heads began<br \/>\nto bend, from top to last kernel. June, the harvester<br \/>\nseparated wheat from chaff. The tractor blade cut low, <\/p>\n<p>the hay rake windrowed, baler spat square bales<br \/>\nuntil the field was stubble like his face. Thirty Octobers later,<br \/>\nhe is too tired to shave. His gray hair, a field of weeds.<br \/>\nHe uses a walker, stiff like straw stalks. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WINTER WHEAT Octobers, we would watch it sprout and wait for Spring to grow. I hung to the back crease of Dad&#8217;s pants. Short enough to walk between his legs, like wind weaving through straight, green stems of May. Don&#8217;t remember when the stalks yellowed. Gradually, seed heads began to bend, from top to last&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/winter-wheat\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">WINTER WHEAT<\/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-214","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\/214","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=214"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":215,"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214\/revisions\/215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}