{"id":217,"date":"2020-11-18T01:08:08","date_gmt":"2020-11-18T01:08:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/english.illinoisstate.edu\/euphemism\/16-1\/?page_id=217"},"modified":"2020-11-20T00:33:40","modified_gmt":"2020-11-20T00:33:40","slug":"blue-heron-at-the-edge-of-the-pond","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/16-1\/poetry\/blue-heron-at-the-edge-of-the-pond\/","title":{"rendered":"Blue Heron at the Edge of the Pond"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Blue Heron at the edge of the pond\u00a0<br>I\u2019ve\u00a0seen you from previous springs\u00a0<br>I know I frighten you so,\u00a0<br>but you show courage before your flight\u00a0<br>Willow wings \u2013 slow, graceful \u2013\u00a0<br>stretched wide like a martyr before your build\u00a0<br>Teach me how to be calm like you,\u00a0<br>to soar without breath\u00a0<br>Far enough away, I cannot reach\u00a0<br>But close enough to tell me that\u00a0<br>fear does not control you in the end\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry-summary\">\nBlue Heron at the edge of the pond\u00a0I\u2019ve\u00a0seen you from previous springs\u00a0I know I frighten you so,\u00a0but you show courage before your flight\u00a0Willow wings \u2013 slow, graceful \u2013\u00a0stretched wide like a martyr before your build\u00a0Teach me how to be calm&hellip;\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/16-1\/poetry\/blue-heron-at-the-edge-of-the-pond\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;Blue Heron at the Edge of the Pond&rdquo;<\/span>&hellip;<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":0,"parent":5,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"templates\/no-intro.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-217","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/16-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/217","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/16-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/16-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/16-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/16-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=217"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/16-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/217\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":357,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/16-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/217\/revisions\/357"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/16-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/16-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}