{"id":5736,"date":"2009-11-22T20:05:45","date_gmt":"2009-11-23T01:05:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/?p=5736"},"modified":"2009-11-22T20:05:45","modified_gmt":"2009-11-23T01:05:45","slug":"bird-watching","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/?p=5736","title":{"rendered":"Bird watching"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t know why birds cause such serenity in humans &#8211; maybe their ability to fly is what enchants us. I saw two men (birders) with binoculars eyeing the cormorants today in the park. We all looked at the birds and the birds all looked elsewhere.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[As for me, I used to be a bird]<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>As for me, I used to be a bird<br \/>\nwith a gentle white womb,<br \/>\nsomeone cut my throat<br \/>\njust for laughs,<br \/>\nI don&#8217;t know.<br \/>\nAs for me, I used to be a great albatross<br \/>\nand whirled over the seas.<br \/>\nSomeone put an end to my journey,<br \/>\nwithout any charity in the tone of it.<br \/>\nBut even stretched out on the ground<br \/>\nI sing for you now<br \/>\nmy songs of love.<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"byline\" style=\"text-transform: uppercase;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/poems.com\/feature.php?date=14572\">ALDA MERINI<\/a><\/span><br \/>\ntranslated from the Italian by Susan Stewart<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t know why birds cause such serenity in humans &#8211; maybe their ability to fly is what enchants us. I saw two men (birders) with binoculars eyeing the cormorants today in the park. We all looked at the birds and the birds all looked elsewhere. [As for me, I used to be a bird] As for me, I used to be a bird with a gentle white womb, someone cut my throat just for&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-5736","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-main"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1kHSD-1uw","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5736","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5736"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5736\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5737,"href":"https:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5736\/revisions\/5737"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}