{"id":2720,"date":"2022-02-13T19:51:35","date_gmt":"2022-02-13T19:51:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/?p=2720"},"modified":"2022-02-13T22:04:00","modified_gmt":"2022-02-13T22:04:00","slug":"birds-of-play","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/?p=2720","title":{"rendered":"(Valentine) Birds of Play"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/IMG_5177-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/IMG_5177-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2721\" width=\"614\" height=\"460\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/IMG_5177-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/IMG_5177-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/IMG_5177-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/IMG_5177-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/IMG_5177-2048x1536.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 614px) 100vw, 614px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A game of hide and seek, the birds<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>inside the boxwoods making shrubbery<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>sing and trill its desire (reminding me&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>of other bushes that burn with fire).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As I pass, they quiet.&nbsp; I move,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>they start again, we play this game<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>of love, of fleeting signs and flipping<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>our display, of feigning and igniting,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>such delicately tuned engines.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the glitter of winter sun, why shouldn\u2019t&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>songbirds rock the hedge \u2014 I walk on.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A game of hide and seek, the birds inside the boxwoods making shrubbery sing and trill its desire (reminding me&nbsp; of other bushes that burn with fire). As I pass, they quiet.&nbsp; I move, they start again, we play this &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/?p=2720\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1210,1209,1208],"class_list":["post-2720","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-language-games","tag-love-games","tag-valentines-day-2"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4D5qU-HS","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2720","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2720"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2720\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2725,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2720\/revisions\/2725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}