{"id":3195,"date":"2024-07-22T10:03:27","date_gmt":"2024-07-22T14:03:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thewonderchildblog.com\/?p=3195"},"modified":"2024-07-22T10:12:42","modified_gmt":"2024-07-22T14:12:42","slug":"3195","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thewonderchildblog.com\/?p=3195","title":{"rendered":"Washing the Feathers, by Radiance Angelina Petro"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Washing the Feathers<br \/>\nby<br \/>\nRadiance Angelina Petro<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Standing at the kitchen sink,<br \/>\ngently washing and smoothing<br \/>\n(from calamus to tip) the bluejay feather<br \/>\nI found on the path, and the woodpecker feather<br \/>\nI found near the Barn, I kept thinking:<br \/>\nthese were once attached to bodies with hollow bones\u2014<br \/>\nones that flew, ones that slept in the trees\u2014<br \/>\nand I wondered at how many feathers<br \/>\nthe bluejay and woodpecker still had,<br \/>\nand why they dropped these particular ones,<br \/>\nand how high they were flying when they did,<br \/>\nI wondered if they knew they had loosened them<br \/>\ninto the sky, I wondered if they felt them go,<br \/>\nI wondered too if I will feel the feathers<br \/>\ndropping from my soul as I fly through the world.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/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>Washing the Feathers by Radiance Angelina Petro &nbsp; Standing at the kitchen sink, gently washing and smoothing (from calamus to tip) the bluejay feather I found on the path, and the woodpecker feather I found near the Barn, I kept thinking: these were once attached to bodies with hollow bones\u2014 ones that flew, ones that [&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\/3195"}],"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=3195"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/thewonderchildblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3195\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3199,"href":"http:\/\/thewonderchildblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3195\/revisions\/3199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thewonderchildblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thewonderchildblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thewonderchildblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}