{"id":2933,"date":"2022-11-20T21:04:11","date_gmt":"2022-11-20T21:04:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/?p=2933"},"modified":"2022-11-20T23:44:11","modified_gmt":"2022-11-20T23:44:11","slug":"the-early-bird-and-other-myths","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/?p=2933","title":{"rendered":"The Early Bird and other Myths"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/IMG_8118-rotated.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/IMG_8118-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2934\" width=\"381\" height=\"507\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/IMG_8118-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/IMG_8118-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/IMG_8118-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/IMG_8118-rotated.jpg 1512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 381px) 100vw, 381px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Oh bathroom window, what are those ash-gray clouds,<br \/>needle in the morning\u2019s eye\u00a0 \u2014<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">dawn too early in its strange light-threading.<br \/>To 6am, I bring another party:&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">my thoughts, light and frisky in dark crevices,<br \/>champagne-splashed agent of chaos,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">so loud, you say, they keep waking you up.<br \/>Suspicious of the day\u2019s order \u2014 FB couples,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">poets in their happy dresses \u2014 I say,<br \/>mum and dad, they fuck you up.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The early bird does not catch the worm.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I saw one writhing on my plate, 5 pm,&nbsp;<br \/>in yesterday\u2019s winter dark.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oh bathroom window, what are those ash-gray clouds,needle in the morning\u2019s eye\u00a0 \u2014 dawn too early in its strange light-threading.To 6am, I bring another party:&nbsp; my thoughts, light and frisky in dark crevices,champagne-splashed agent of chaos, so loud, you say, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/?p=2933\">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":[1228,1229,138],"class_list":["post-2933","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-dawn","tag-philip-larkin","tag-poetry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4D5qU-Lj","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2933","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=2933"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2933\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2937,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2933\/revisions\/2937"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}