{"id":24034,"date":"2022-06-04T20:09:00","date_gmt":"2022-06-04T20:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/?p=24034"},"modified":"2022-06-06T20:25:02","modified_gmt":"2022-06-06T20:25:02","slug":"arrias-and-his-muse-morning-chorus-in-the-swamp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/arrias-and-his-muse-morning-chorus-in-the-swamp\/","title":{"rendered":"Arrias and His Muse: Morning Chorus in the Swamp"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/arrias_muse1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"214\" height=\"288\" \/>My Muse walked the dogs this morning&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>\u2019Tis my own heavenly chorus,<br \/>\nMust be a hundred birds chirping away,<br \/>\nAs I walk the dogs at sunrise,<br \/>\nThese little angels welcome the new day.<\/p>\n<p>Busy little hummingbirds humming,<br \/>\nAs they dart from flower to flower,<br \/>\nThe most remarkable aviators,<br \/>\nI marvel at their skill and power.<\/p>\n<p>Above a Pileated Woodpecker<br \/>\nRaps away looking for ants,<br \/>\nHis tapping keeps the beat<br \/>\nAnd the others join with their chants.<\/p>\n<p>Sparrows, Blue birds, and the Cardinals &#8211;<br \/>\nDressed in the finest scarlet,<br \/>\nFlying from tree to tree,<br \/>\nParading about as if a harlot!<\/p>\n<p>Finches, Robins, Orioles,<br \/>\nHigh above magnificently soars a vulture,<br \/>\nExceedingly ugly when up close,<br \/>\nA necessary part of nature\u2019s culture.<\/p>\n<p>Within an hour or so it\u2019s done,<br \/>\nThe rest of the world will have stirred,<br \/>\nBut for now they sing to greet the day,<br \/>\nA song only I have heard.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2022 Arrias<br \/>\nwww.vicsocotra.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My Muse walked the dogs this morning&#8230; \u2019Tis my own heavenly chorus, Must be a hundred birds chirping away, As I walk the dogs at sunrise, These little angels welcome the new day. Busy little hummingbirds humming, As they dart from flower to flower, The most remarkable aviators, I marvel at their skill and power. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24034","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arrian"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24034","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24034"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24034\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24037,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24034\/revisions\/24037"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}