{"id":3228,"date":"2024-08-02T10:24:20","date_gmt":"2024-08-02T14:24:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thewonderchildblog.com\/?p=3228"},"modified":"2024-11-28T09:46:24","modified_gmt":"2024-11-28T14:46:24","slug":"3228","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thewonderchildblog.com\/?p=3228","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Collective of Wings<br \/>\n<i>For the Faculty of River Valley<\/i><br \/>\nby<br \/>\nRadiance Angelina Petro<\/p>\n<p>On my morning walk, I got to wondering<br \/>\nwhether when I say: \u201cGood morning,\u201d to one starling<br \/>\nI\u2019m actually saying \u201cGood morning,\u201d to all starlings.<br \/>\nSame with the robins, the wrens, the blue jays.<br \/>\nIt would make sense that it would be so\u2014that they<br \/>\nlive one sharing of thoughts and heartbeats, one sky,<br \/>\none future, one rhythm. \u00a0And as I round the bend<br \/>\nwhere the cornfield sways with the sun on its mind,<br \/>\na flock of starlings banks left, then right, then lifts high<br \/>\ninto the air. \u00a0And I can\u2019t help but smile at the miracle<br \/>\nof how we do the same. \u00a0Look at us\u2014every morning&#8212;<br \/>\nlifting from our separate branches, homing in towards<br \/>\nthe same field&#8211;one daring, collective of wings.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/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<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>A Collective of Wings For the Faculty of River Valley by Radiance Angelina Petro On my morning walk, I got to wondering whether when I say: \u201cGood morning,\u201d to one starling I\u2019m actually saying \u201cGood morning,\u201d to all starlings. Same with the robins, the wrens, the blue jays. It would make sense that it would [&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\/3228"}],"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=3228"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/thewonderchildblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3228\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3261,"href":"http:\/\/thewonderchildblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3228\/revisions\/3261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thewonderchildblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thewonderchildblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thewonderchildblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}