{"id":2853,"date":"2011-01-15T20:51:18","date_gmt":"2011-01-16T04:51:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.multer.com\/people\/monica\/?p=2853"},"modified":"2011-01-15T20:51:18","modified_gmt":"2011-01-16T04:51:18","slug":"snowy-egret-frostbite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.multer.com\/people\/monica\/2011\/snowy-egret-frostbite\/","title":{"rendered":"Snowy Egret (Frostbite)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.multer.com\/people\/monica\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/IMG_5282.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2854\" title=\"IMG_5282\" src=\"http:\/\/www.multer.com\/people\/monica\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/IMG_5282.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"448\" height=\"319\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.multer.com\/people\/monica\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/IMG_5282.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.multer.com\/people\/monica\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/IMG_5282-300x213.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 448px) 100vw, 448px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">A snowy egret flies<br \/>\nOn paper thin wings<br \/>\nLike a paper airplane<br \/>\nGliding through the air<br \/>\nKeeping airborne<br \/>\nFor as long as it can<br \/>\nUntil its fragile wings<br \/>\nBow under the weight<br \/>\nOf heavy air<br \/>\nInto the ground<br \/>\nWhere no paper airplanes soar<br \/>\nHere the snow<br \/>\nBelongs to the land<br \/>\nNot the bird in the sky<br \/>\nNo longer fragile and beautiful<br \/>\nBut the paper-thin feel<br \/>\nOf cold seeping<br \/>\nInto your hollow bones<br \/>\nThe delicate dance<br \/>\nOf frostbite on the fingertips<br \/>\nOf ballerina dancers<br \/>\nThe slow decay of the biting snow<br \/>\nAnd the old heaviness weighing down<br \/>\nThe lightest breeze<br \/>\nThe wings of an egret<br \/>\nLaden with the burden<br \/>\nOf the world without sky<br \/>\nChained to the ground<br \/>\nWaist deep in snow<br \/>\nWhere a creature with wings<br \/>\nDoes not belong<br \/>\nYet cannot escape from<br \/>\nThe paper wings beat<br \/>\nTo leave behind this place<br \/>\nHeavy<br \/>\nWith the absence of all<br \/>\nFreedom lies in the air<br \/>\nWhere the snow belongs<br \/>\nTo a graceful bird<br \/>\nNot the world lying below<br \/>\nWhere frostbite is left behind<br \/>\nIn the warm sun&#8217;s glow<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A snowy egret flies On paper thin wings Like a paper airplane Gliding through the air Keeping airborne For as long as it can Until its fragile wings Bow under the weight Of heavy air Into the ground Where no paper airplanes soar Here the snow Belongs to the land Not the bird in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6,3],"tags":[1181,1501,1498,1502,1499,827,1497,1500,120],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.multer.com\/people\/monica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2853"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.multer.com\/people\/monica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.multer.com\/people\/monica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.multer.com\/people\/monica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.multer.com\/people\/monica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2853"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.multer.com\/people\/monica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2853\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2855,"href":"https:\/\/www.multer.com\/people\/monica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2853\/revisions\/2855"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.multer.com\/people\/monica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.multer.com\/people\/monica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.multer.com\/people\/monica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}