{"id":264,"date":"2018-11-16T19:30:21","date_gmt":"2018-11-16T19:30:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/?p=264"},"modified":"2018-11-16T19:30:21","modified_gmt":"2018-11-16T19:30:21","slug":"thoughts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/thoughts\/","title":{"rendered":"Thoughts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Thoughts<\/strong><br \/>\nLike a root hidden under the fallen leaves, they grab me,<br \/>\nI stumble, fall, then get back up to walk the trail. <\/p>\n<p>Or like poison ivy, insidious, clinging, growing up the oak.<br \/>\nOther times, they float down gently as an autumn leaf <\/p>\n<p>drifting to the ground.  Maybe they are a dry leaf<br \/>\ntorn by the wind, blowing far from the poplar.<\/p>\n<p>Or perhaps hanging on the beech branch until spring.<br \/>\nBut most times, they strike like lightening to the pine <\/p>\n<p>and split me down my trunk leaving a long black scar.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\tThe Magnolia Review<br \/>\n\t\t\t\tJune 15<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thoughts Like a root hidden under the fallen leaves, they grab me, I stumble, fall, then get back up to walk the trail. Or like poison ivy, insidious, clinging, growing up the oak. Other times, they float down gently as an autumn leaf drifting to the ground. Maybe they are a dry leaf torn by&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/thoughts\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Thoughts<\/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-264","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\/264","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=264"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":265,"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264\/revisions\/265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}