{"id":10523,"date":"2010-12-27T18:17:10","date_gmt":"2010-12-27T23:17:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/?p=10523"},"modified":"2010-12-27T18:17:10","modified_gmt":"2010-12-27T23:17:10","slug":"deer-december","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/?p=10523","title":{"rendered":"DEER, DECEMBER"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span id=\"poem\" style=\"font-size: 1em;\">One of thirty nights I can&#8217;t sleep<br \/>\nI awaken to motion in the last dark<br \/>\nout the window, tight against the hillside.<br \/>\nI put on my glasses to stop<br \/>\nthe glass in the old house from wavering.<\/p>\n<p>Three of them, maybe twenty feet away,<br \/>\nthey nuzzle new snow,<br \/>\nleaves and twigs not yet frozen hard,<br \/>\na poor diet, winter just begun.<br \/>\nForaging, chewing, staring lines into space.<br \/>\nTheir necks bolt upright only to the slight<br \/>\nshift in what I imagine is wind,<br \/>\nto things I can&#8217;t hear, couldn&#8217;t,<br \/>\nwere I with them outside and not still<br \/>\nwarm on the edge of the bed<\/p>\n<p>Then a cardinal is winter<br \/>\nred against the even gray of 6 a.m.<br \/>\n\u2014cloudy, this time of year. I&#8217;ll stay watching<br \/>\nuntil I&#8217;m late for another morning meeting,<br \/>\nmy alarm clock not gone off\u2014that must be it.<br \/>\nI can&#8217;t know how little I&#8217;ll be missed.<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span id=\"byline\" style=\"text-transform: uppercase;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/poems.com\/feature.php?date=14971\">RICHARD TERRILL<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of thirty nights I can&#8217;t sleep I awaken to motion in the last dark out the window, tight against the hillside. I put on my glasses to stop the glass in the old house from wavering. Three of them, maybe twenty feet away, they nuzzle new snow, leaves and twigs not yet frozen hard, a poor diet, winter just begun. Foraging, chewing, staring lines into space. Their necks bolt upright only to the slight&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-main"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1kHSD-2JJ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10523","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10523"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10523\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10524,"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10523\/revisions\/10524"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}