{"id":1758,"date":"2012-04-23T07:47:21","date_gmt":"2012-04-23T13:47:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/poems\/flea\/"},"modified":"2013-04-23T23:01:17","modified_gmt":"2013-04-24T05:01:17","slug":"flea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/poems\/2011-a-virtual-chapbook\/flea\/","title":{"rendered":"flea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From afar<br \/>\nI am drawn<br \/>\nto this mountain.<br \/>\nI step on his feet,<br \/>\nclimb his knee,<br \/>\nover his hip,<br \/>\nand run along his long spine,<br \/>\nup between great shoulders.<br \/>\nAhead I face the summit.<br \/>\nFrom his crown<br \/>\nI look down<br \/>\nand around<br \/>\nand around.<br \/>\nHere near his ear<br \/>\nI listen to silence<br \/>\nand breathe the cold light<br \/>\nas a flea on a giant. <span class=\"sig\">mjh<\/span><\/p>\n<p><small>1\/4\/2005<\/small><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Listen to <a href='http:\/\/www.mjhinton.net\/mjh\/wp-content\/mine\/flea.mp3' class=\"wpaudio\">flea<\/a> <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/poems\/my-virtual-chapbook\/\">My Virtual Chapbook<\/a> (table of contents)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From afar I am drawn to this mountain. I step on his feet, climb his knee, over his hip, and run along his long spine, up between great shoulders. Ahead I face the summit. From his crown I look down and around and around. Here near his ear I listen to silence and breathe the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/poems\/2011-a-virtual-chapbook\/flea\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">flea<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[143],"tags":[87,53,72],"class_list":["post-1758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2011-a-virtual-chapbook","tag-macro","tag-mountains","tag-nature"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1758","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1758"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1758\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6148,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1758\/revisions\/6148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}