{"id":337,"date":"2020-03-24T18:50:05","date_gmt":"2020-03-24T18:50:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/?p=337"},"modified":"2020-03-24T18:50:05","modified_gmt":"2020-03-24T18:50:05","slug":"first-milk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/first-milk\/","title":{"rendered":"First Milk"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>First Milk<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The calf\nfalls into the world, it struggles to stand on spindly legs, <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>stumbles\nbeneath its mother for that first milk.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>I lurch out of bed to face the morning.&nbsp; (day)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Stronger\nnow, the baby sticks close to its grazing mother, trots to keep up <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>when she\nmoves to another bit of grass.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>I watch the sun shoulder the night away<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Cud chewing\ntime, the cow kneels to the ground, <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>the\nyoungster beside her.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>In the thicket, I hear the wood thrush pipe\nin the spring morning<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Grass\nglistens in the warming sun, <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>the calf\ncareens down the hill.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>And I take 3 little pills to keep up with\nthe day<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; hellebore&nbsp; 2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First Milk The calf falls into the world, it struggles to stand on spindly legs, stumbles beneath its mother for that first milk. I lurch out of bed to face the morning.&nbsp; (day) Stronger now, the baby sticks close to its grazing mother, trots to keep up when she moves to another bit of grass.&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/first-milk\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">First Milk<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-337","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\/337","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=337"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":338,"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337\/revisions\/338"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}