{"id":72,"date":"2018-11-16T18:30:46","date_gmt":"2018-11-16T18:30:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/?p=72"},"modified":"2018-11-16T18:30:46","modified_gmt":"2018-11-16T18:30:46","slug":"strip-mine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/strip-mine\/","title":{"rendered":"STRIP MINE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>STRIP MINE<\/strong><br \/>\nNorfolk-Southern is carrying coal<br \/>\nto feed air conditioners and Las Vegas lights.<br \/>\nThe hills, pierced by augers, bleed onto belts,<br \/>\ndrip onto trains. Spoil tumbles down the slopes,<br \/>\noil rainbows paint the stream.<\/p>\n<p>In bull dozed layers, soil bandages the cuts. Replanted<br \/>\nin rye and Scotch pine, smoothed land has no tiny caves<br \/>\nor moss forests. The red eft cannot return. Kudzu<br \/>\nand poison ivy trellis trees, hides the sign declaring<br \/>\nthe site reclaimed.<\/p>\n<p>Rain knifes the red clay<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>STRIP MINE Norfolk-Southern is carrying coal to feed air conditioners and Las Vegas lights. The hills, pierced by augers, bleed onto belts, drip onto trains. Spoil tumbles down the slopes, oil rainbows paint the stream. In bull dozed layers, soil bandages the cuts. Replanted in rye and Scotch pine, smoothed land has no tiny caves&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/strip-mine\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">STRIP MINE<\/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-72","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\/72","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=72"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73,"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72\/revisions\/73"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}