{"id":42,"date":"2005-11-17T15:45:16","date_gmt":"2005-11-17T15:45:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/?p=42"},"modified":"2018-11-16T16:08:49","modified_gmt":"2018-11-16T16:08:49","slug":"hunting-the-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/hunting-the-children\/","title":{"rendered":"HUNTING THE CHILDREN"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>HUNTING THE CHILDREN<\/strong><br \/>\nThe Great Egret,<br \/>\nlord of the lagoon,<br \/>\nsnakes among the reeds.<\/p>\n<p>Head tilted,<br \/>\nthe plumed hunter<br \/>\nstalks forward,<br \/>\nunblinking.<\/p>\n<p>A baby duck strays,<br \/>\nhuddles between<br \/>\ncattail stems.<br \/>\nWith yellow bill,<br \/>\nthe egret spears<br \/>\nthe duckling. <\/p>\n<p>The mallard hen<br \/>\nclucks to her brood<br \/>\nwhile the egret stilts<br \/>\nto dry ground.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HUNTING THE CHILDREN The Great Egret, lord of the lagoon, snakes among the reeds. Head tilted, the plumed hunter stalks forward, unblinking. A baby duck strays, huddles between cattail stems. With yellow bill, the egret spears the duckling. The mallard hen clucks to her brood while the egret stilts to dry ground.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poems","category-the-catbird-sang"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42","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=42"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53,"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42\/revisions\/53"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}