{"id":2985,"date":"2014-04-05T14:53:01","date_gmt":"2014-04-05T19:53:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/davious.org\/now\/?p=2985"},"modified":"2024-12-17T20:10:09","modified_gmt":"2024-12-18T01:10:09","slug":"blue-herons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davious.org\/now\/2014\/04\/blue-herons\/","title":{"rendered":"Blue Herons"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<pre class=\"wp-block-preformatted\">The gentle, arched wob-wob,\n she advances step-step\n  up the lake.\nThere is no one here\n except the mini-Lochnesses\n momentarily periscoping up,\n facing the wind\n as it whips up waves.\nOh, another follows\n step for step in step.\nI realize this is Spring.\nBriefly, I wonder if the tension\n is only my speculating:\n she will yield without a fight\n or they are already friends\n  as well as lovers.\nIt is Spring and each walk\n step-step up this long lake\n and it would take all day;\n no, never finish, they way\n  they walk step-step.\nHe leans into flight,\n glides purposefully down the lake,\n over the hill, and is gone.\nPerhaps she didn\u2019t notice;\n perhaps she felt a mere ripple\n  of a flap amid the wind;\n perhaps she was only looking\n  one step ahead as she continues\n step-step.\nShe eventually settles in and\nhe returns, wings splayed,\ncruising to the other end\nlike he has some business to attend to.<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The gentle, arched wob-wob, she advances step-step up the lake. There is no one here except the mini-Lochnesses momentarily periscoping up, facing the wind as it whips up waves. Oh, another follows step for step in step. I realize this is Spring. Briefly, I wonder if the tension is only my speculating: she will yield [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[23],"class_list":["post-2985","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poems","tag-dragonfly-book"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davious.org\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2985","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davious.org\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davious.org\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davious.org\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davious.org\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2985"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/davious.org\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2985\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3472,"href":"https:\/\/davious.org\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2985\/revisions\/3472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davious.org\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davious.org\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davious.org\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}