{"id":517,"date":"2011-02-08T17:30:45","date_gmt":"2011-02-08T21:30:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dennisdanvers.com\/?p=517"},"modified":"2011-02-08T17:31:08","modified_gmt":"2011-02-08T21:31:08","slug":"canada-geese-in-byrd-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/dennisdanvers.com\/?p=517","title":{"rendered":"Canada Geese in Byrd Park"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Canada Geese in Byrd Park<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m moved by their dawn song, though I&#8217;ve grown to hate them,<br \/>\na flapping, crapping infestation,<br \/>\na non-migratory shit machine.<br \/>\nStill I&#8217;m a sucker for the splash<br \/>\nof their landing in the morning mists<br \/>\nupon the lake built to be so lovely in the 20&#8217;s<br \/>\nfor man and goose alike.  Only it&#8217;s<br \/>\nwinter, guys, you&#8217;re not supposed to be here,<br \/>\nwith more and more all the time,<br \/>\na hazard to every water hazard,<br \/>\ndestroyer of US Airways Flight 1549.<br \/>\nSo where do you guys get off sounding so sublime?<br \/>\nHired border collies roust you from the shit-slick promenade,<br \/>\nbut still you keep coming back, determined.  These are<br \/>\nyour darkest days.  The temptation must be strong to fly.<br \/>\nThat must be what I hear in your song that moves me\u00e2\u20ac\u201d<br \/>\nThat longing to be birds again and fly the whole world round.<br \/>\nHang in there. It&#8217;s Sunday.<br \/>\nYour pals with the Wonder Bread will be round shortly,<br \/>\ntheir chubby eager children, churning through the slime.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Canada Geese in Byrd Park I&#8217;m moved by their dawn song, though I&#8217;ve grown to hate them, a flapping, crapping infestation, a non-migratory shit machine. Still I&#8217;m a sucker for the splash of their landing in the morning mists upon &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/dennisdanvers.com\/?p=517\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-517","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poems","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/dennisdanvers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/dennisdanvers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/dennisdanvers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dennisdanvers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dennisdanvers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=517"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/dennisdanvers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":525,"href":"http:\/\/dennisdanvers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517\/revisions\/525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/dennisdanvers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dennisdanvers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dennisdanvers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}