{"id":2937,"date":"2013-04-02T00:47:00","date_gmt":"2013-04-02T06:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/poems\/birdsmith\/"},"modified":"2013-03-31T13:15:52","modified_gmt":"2013-03-31T19:15:52","slug":"birdsmith","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/poems\/2013-a-month-of-somedays\/birdsmith\/","title":{"rendered":"birdsmith"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The poet stands before a cage of birds,   <br \/>\ncontemplating his next words.    <br \/>\nHe snatches up a finch    <br \/>\nand deftly dips its feet in ink,    <br \/>\nstamping glyphs across the page.    <br \/>\nAll the while, the bird sings softly,    <br \/>\nadding a common tone    <br \/>\nto this pedestrian poem.    <br \/>\nReturning the finch to its pen,    <br \/>\nthe poet mutters,    <br \/>\n&quot;I should have used a wren.&quot; <em style=\"color: red;\"><sub>mjh<\/sub><\/em><\/p>\n<p><small>11\/24\/2009<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The poet stands before a cage of birds, contemplating his next words. He snatches up a finch and deftly dips its feet in ink, stamping glyphs across the page. All the while, the bird sings softly, adding a common tone to this pedestrian poem. Returning the finch to its pen, the poet mutters, &quot;I should &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/poems\/2013-a-month-of-somedays\/birdsmith\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">birdsmith<\/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":[141],"tags":[104,160,71],"class_list":["post-2937","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2013-a-month-of-somedays","tag-birds","tag-poetry","tag-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2937","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=2937"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2937\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6003,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2937\/revisions\/6003"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}