{"id":617,"date":"2015-01-22T15:01:29","date_gmt":"2015-01-22T20:01:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thewonderchildblog.com\/?p=617"},"modified":"2015-01-22T15:01:29","modified_gmt":"2015-01-22T20:01:29","slug":"owl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thewonderchildblog.com\/?p=617","title":{"rendered":"Owl"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Owl<br \/>\nBy<br \/>\nJoseph Anthony Petro<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Somewhere<br \/>\nIn the night trees<br \/>\nYou ask the question<br \/>\nWhile at the same time<br \/>\nBragging that you know<br \/>\nThe answer.<br \/>\nAnd you glide<br \/>\nAround our houses,<br \/>\nDrift through the moonlight<br \/>\nOver our backyards,<br \/>\nConfident in your silent wings,<br \/>\nWith the night<br \/>\nCoursing through your bones<br \/>\nWith sheer joy<br \/>\nAbove us all.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">I lie awake<br \/>\nListening.<br \/>\nWhen I am finally able<br \/>\nTo sob the same question<br \/>\nInto the darkness<br \/>\nI am racked with dread,<br \/>\nAnd I frantically try to avoid<br \/>\nThe turn of your head,<br \/>\nDesperately try to blend in<br \/>\nWith the surrounding shadows,<br \/>\nWildly try to pretend<br \/>\nI have not been left out in the open\u2014<br \/>\nAnd so I run, or I freeze,<br \/>\nHell-bent on avoiding the talons<br \/>\nYou close around those<br \/>\nWho do not know<br \/>\nThe answer.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<input name=\"hosted_button_id\" type=\"hidden\" value=\"F4CK35BRFLT4Y\" \/><br \/>\n<input alt=\"PayPal - The safer, easier way to pay online!\" name=\"submit\" src=\"https:\/\/www.paypalobjects.com\/en_US\/i\/btn\/btn_donateCC_LG.gif\" type=\"image\" \/><\/p>\n<form action=\"https:\/\/www.paypal.com\/cgi-bin\/webscr\" method=\"post\" target=\"_top\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Thank you for supporting the Wonder Child Blog<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><form method=\"post\" action=\"\"><input type=\"hidden\" name=\"ip\" value=\"216.73.216.215\" \/><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<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.paypalobjects.com\/en_US\/i\/scr\/pixel.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<\/form>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Owl By Joseph Anthony Petro Somewhere In the night trees You ask the question While at the same time Bragging that you know The answer. And you glide Around our houses, Drift through the moonlight Over our backyards, Confident in your silent wings, With the night Coursing through your bones With sheer joy Above us [&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":[184,70,183,182,181,833,69,162],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/thewonderchildblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/617"}],"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=617"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/thewonderchildblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/617\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":618,"href":"http:\/\/thewonderchildblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/617\/revisions\/618"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thewonderchildblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thewonderchildblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thewonderchildblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}