{"id":49,"date":"2010-03-29T18:30:07","date_gmt":"2010-03-29T23:30:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.franciscostork.com\/blog\/2010\/03\/29\/the-song\/"},"modified":"2010-03-29T18:32:40","modified_gmt":"2010-03-29T23:32:40","slug":"the-song","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.franciscostork.com\/journal\/2010\/03\/29\/the-song\/","title":{"rendered":"The Song"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It is not logical to hear such a melody<br \/>\nthis late spring<br \/>\nwhen the rains are still cold.<br \/>\nI had to stop when it first came,<br \/>\nits beckoning unrecognizable<br \/>\nor too familiar.<\/p>\n<p>How can the frozen earth not<br \/>\ncrack<br \/>\nto such song?<br \/>\nHow can the numb cardinal not<br \/>\nsing<br \/>\nto the first sun?<\/p>\n<p>It was almost too late<br \/>\nthe sound of the first rain drop.<br \/>\nI stopped only because it hurt.<br \/>\nThat dark echo.<br \/>\nThat flash of sound.<\/p>\n<p>-Francisco X. Stork<br \/>\nMarch 29, 2010<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is not logical to hear such a melody this late spring when the rains are still cold. I had to stop when it first came, its beckoning unrecognizable or too familiar. How can the frozen earth not crack to such song? How can the numb cardinal not sing to the first sun? It was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poems","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.franciscostork.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.franciscostork.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.franciscostork.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.franciscostork.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.franciscostork.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.franciscostork.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.franciscostork.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.franciscostork.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.franciscostork.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}