{"id":921,"date":"2015-04-13T09:00:15","date_gmt":"2015-04-13T16:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/?p=921"},"modified":"2015-04-12T16:32:29","modified_gmt":"2015-04-12T23:32:29","slug":"not-the-owl-by-john-w-sexton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/?p=921","title":{"rendered":"Not the Owl, by John W. Sexton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Dancing_skeletons_Dance_of_Death_Wellcome_L0006816.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Dancing_skeletons_Dance_of_Death_Wellcome_L0006816-300x261.jpg\" alt=\"Dancing_skeletons,_&#039;Dance_of_Death&#039;_Wellcome_L0006816\" width=\"300\" height=\"261\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-922\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Dancing_skeletons_Dance_of_Death_Wellcome_L0006816-300x261.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Dancing_skeletons_Dance_of_Death_Wellcome_L0006816.jpg 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It was not the owl, with moonlight in its feathers,<br \/>\nthat gathered me up from my earthen bed<br \/>\nin the woods. It was not the owl, with its tarnished<br \/>\nbeak, that called me to service.<\/p>\n<p>It was not the bear, with its bee\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s hive trumpet,<br \/>\nthat summoned me either. It was not the bear,<br \/>\nwith its sleepy growl, that opened the door<br \/>\nof the root-house.<\/p>\n<p>It was not the wolf, with blood on its tongue,<br \/>\nthat brought me blood when I was bloodless.<br \/>\nIt was not the wolf, when the moon leant close,<br \/>\nthat howled me awake.<\/p>\n<p>It was not the worm, in its coat of tunnels,<br \/>\nthat stirred me from death. It was not the beetle,<br \/>\nnor the mouse, nor the feral pig, that turned me<br \/>\nout of my shut room.<\/p>\n<p>It was the cold, that fell from the pines when snow<br \/>\nwas merely a rumour, that filled my mind<br \/>\nwith life. When not even bones was I, or rotted flesh;<br \/>\nthen did the cold rouse me out.<\/p>\n<p>In my skin of pine needles, rotted lifetimes<br \/>\nof the trees, I am the blur deep in the woods.<br \/>\nI am the wavering light with each step you take.<br \/>\nI am the chill that clings to your thought.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was not the owl, with moonlight in its feathers, that gathered me up from my earthen bed in the woods. It was not the owl, with its tarnished beak, that called me to service. It was not the bear, with its bee\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s hive trumpet, that summoned me either. It was not the bear, with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-921","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/921","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=921"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/921\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":924,"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/921\/revisions\/924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}