{"id":2786,"date":"2023-10-26T09:16:59","date_gmt":"2023-10-26T13:16:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thewonderchildblog.com\/?p=2786"},"modified":"2023-10-26T09:21:47","modified_gmt":"2023-10-26T13:21:47","slug":"trees-by-radiance-angelina-petro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thewonderchildblog.com\/?p=2786","title":{"rendered":"Trees, by Radiance Angelina Petro"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Trees<br \/>\nby<br \/>\nRadiance Angelina Petro<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Oak, magnolia, ash, willow&#8211;<br \/>\nsuch sensible names for trees.<br \/>\nThey carry their vowels<\/p>\n<p>in the breath of their leaves,<br \/>\nand their consonants live<br \/>\nin their biblical branches.<\/p>\n<p>Their roots help bind the world<br \/>\ntogether, and their proportions<br \/>\nlead by example. Who else<\/p>\n<p>would let hives live in their hair,<br \/>\nand let hornets hang paper nests<br \/>\nfrom their fingers? Who else<\/p>\n<p>would welcome katydids and frogs,<br \/>\nwoodpeckers and hawks<br \/>\ninto their home? Who else<\/p>\n<p>could change and let go<br \/>\nso effortlessly? Who else<br \/>\nwould let cicadas climb<\/p>\n<p>up their bodies to scream?<br \/>\nAnd who else could get birds<br \/>\nto sleep on their arms?<\/p>\n<p>Each of their seeds<br \/>\nis a godling, each of their<br \/>\nsways helps move the wind,<\/p>\n<p>and when the end comes who else<br \/>\nwill open their bodies and let us live inside<br \/>\nuntil the sun shines again?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trees by Radiance Angelina Petro &nbsp; Oak, magnolia, ash, willow&#8211; such sensible names for trees. They carry their vowels in the breath of their leaves, and their consonants live in their biblical branches. Their roots help bind the world together, and their proportions lead by example. Who else would let hives live in their hair, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/thewonderchildblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2786"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/thewonderchildblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/thewonderchildblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thewonderchildblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thewonderchildblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2786"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/thewonderchildblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2786\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2790,"href":"http:\/\/thewonderchildblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2786\/revisions\/2790"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thewonderchildblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thewonderchildblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thewonderchildblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}