{"id":3020,"date":"2024-04-24T09:26:13","date_gmt":"2024-04-24T13:26:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thewonderchildblog.com\/?p=3020"},"modified":"2024-04-24T09:26:13","modified_gmt":"2024-04-24T13:26:13","slug":"the-second-kind-by-radiance-angelina-petro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thewonderchildblog.com\/?p=3020","title":{"rendered":"The Second Kind, by Radiance Angelina Petro"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Second Kind<br \/>\nby<br \/>\nRadiance Angelina Petro<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s morning.<br \/>\nOnly adjectives<br \/>\nfloat through the sky.<br \/>\nWe\u2019ve woken<br \/>\nfrom Ascension Island,<br \/>\nand the stretching<br \/>\nmoments of the morning<br \/>\nare collecting, like<br \/>\nstrings of nucleotides.<br \/>\nWe\u2019ve dreamt<br \/>\nour way through<br \/>\ngill clefts<br \/>\nthat gave way<br \/>\nto buds of wings<br \/>\nand reptile hands,<br \/>\nto vestigial tails,<br \/>\nto fingers and spines,<br \/>\nto our day bodies,<br \/>\nready for a second kind<br \/>\nof dreaming.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<form method=\"post\" action=\"\"><input type=\"hidden\" name=\"ip\" value=\"216.73.216.163\" \/><p><label for=\"s2email\">Your email:<\/label><br \/><input type=\"text\" name=\"email\" id=\"s2email\" value=\"Enter email address...\" size=\"20\" onfocus=\"if (this.value == 'Enter email address...') {this.value = '';}\" onblur=\"if (this.value == '') {this.value = 'Enter email address...';}\" \/><\/p><p><input type=\"submit\" name=\"subscribe\" value=\"Subscribe\" \/>&nbsp;<input type=\"submit\" name=\"unsubscribe\" value=\"Unsubscribe\" \/><\/p><\/form>\r\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Second Kind by Radiance Angelina Petro &nbsp; It\u2019s morning. Only adjectives float through the sky. We\u2019ve woken from Ascension Island, and the stretching moments of the morning are collecting, like strings of nucleotides. We\u2019ve dreamt our way through gill clefts that gave way to buds of wings and reptile hands, to vestigial tails, to [&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\/3020"}],"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=3020"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/thewonderchildblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3020\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3021,"href":"http:\/\/thewonderchildblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3020\/revisions\/3021"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thewonderchildblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thewonderchildblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thewonderchildblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}