{"id":1086,"date":"2024-04-30T14:51:07","date_gmt":"2024-04-30T14:51:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/caoimhin.xyz\/?page_id=1086"},"modified":"2024-04-30T14:58:43","modified_gmt":"2024-04-30T14:58:43","slug":"on-a-bend","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/caoimhin.xyz\/index.php\/on-a-bend\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote has-text-align-left has-quinary-color has-senary-background-color has-text-color has-background has-link-color has-extra-large-font-size wp-elements-1\"><blockquote><p>Ever since I read that<br>flying insects have decreased by sixty percent<br>I roll down the window<br>and corral them out<br><br>Catch shrew sized moths<br>that crackle against my palms<br>not to crumble their dusty wings<br>not one less, a hopeless balancing<br><br>On a bend, a crow<br>squat to the ground<br>waiting to be hit by another car<br>who was not me, but was one of us<br><br>It rests in a cardboard box<br>when I return two hours later<br>flies leave it embarrassed<br>to have started on a premature corpse<br><br>Flat on its back<br>it remembers and stares<br>at you, as part of your species<br>until its white third eyelid closes<br><br>The rest, I try to black out<br>no longer sure it was a kindness<\/p><\/blockquote><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ever since I read thatflying insects have decreased by sixty percentI roll down the windowand corral them out Catch shrew sized mothsthat crackle against my palmsnot to crumble their dusty wingsnot one less, a hopeless balancing On a bend, a crowsquat to the groundwaiting to be hit by another carwho was not me, but was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"two_page_speed":[],"_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[],"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1086","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/caoimhin.xyz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1086","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/caoimhin.xyz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/caoimhin.xyz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caoimhin.xyz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caoimhin.xyz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1086"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/caoimhin.xyz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1086\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1087,"href":"https:\/\/caoimhin.xyz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1086\/revisions\/1087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/caoimhin.xyz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}