{"id":263,"date":"2020-04-30T02:59:51","date_gmt":"2020-04-30T02:59:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/english.illinoisstate.edu\/euphemism\/15-2\/?page_id=263"},"modified":"2020-04-30T04:05:35","modified_gmt":"2020-04-30T04:05:35","slug":"flying-is","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/15-2\/poetry\/flying-is\/","title":{"rendered":"Flying Is"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">by <strong>J. Randall Brett<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Flying is walking down the beach\u00a0<br>With a white knife for a dog.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Flying is having\u00a0<br>Salt bones\u00a0<br>For wings.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Flying is standing out in the mudflats\u00a0<br>Dressed like a bride\u00a0<br>Expecting kestrels for the groom.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Flying is the wind\u00a0<br>Scouring the sea wall with sand\u00a0<br>Until It etches every word\u00a0<br>Of\u00a0<em>The Crab Manifesto<\/em>.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Flying is sunlight\u00a0\u00a0<br>Tearing and tattering\u00a0<br>The surface of the sea.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Flying is an angel\u00a0<br>Stepping from the waves\u00a0<br>Shivering the water from her wings\u00a0<br>Then looking up.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by J. Randall Brett Flying is walking down the beach\u00a0With a white knife for a dog.\u00a0 Flying is having\u00a0Salt bones\u00a0For wings.\u00a0\u00a0 Flying is standing out in the mudflats\u00a0Dressed like a bride\u00a0Expecting kestrels for the groom.\u00a0 Flying is the wind\u00a0Scouring the sea wall with sand\u00a0Until It etches every word\u00a0Of\u00a0The Crab Manifesto.\u00a0 Flying is sunlight\u00a0\u00a0Tearing and tattering\u00a0The&hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"toivo-read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/15-2\/poetry\/flying-is\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Flying Is<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":0,"parent":9,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-263","page","type-page","status-publish","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/15-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/263","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/15-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/15-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/15-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/15-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=263"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/15-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/263\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":264,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/15-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/263\/revisions\/264"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/15-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/15-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}