{"id":2183,"date":"2012-11-01T23:35:18","date_gmt":"2012-11-02T04:35:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=2183"},"modified":"2012-11-05T06:31:32","modified_gmt":"2012-11-05T11:31:32","slug":"starlings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=2183","title":{"rendered":"Starlings"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_2185\" style=\"width: 360px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/img_20121101_046484.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2185\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/img_20121101_046484-350x233.jpg\" alt=\"Starlings\" title=\"Starlings\" width=\"350\" height=\"233\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2185\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/img_20121101_046484-350x233.jpg 350w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/img_20121101_046484-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/img_20121101_046484-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/img_20121101_046484-800x533.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/img_20121101_046484.jpg 1250w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2185\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Starlings<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Are you a fan of starlings? Or do you see them as a curse, a thorn in the farmers&#8217; side? Randy Stonehill, one of my favorite singers, used them as a metaphor for those we prefer not to see. &#x201c;She was sitting on a curb by the Seven Eleven.&#x201d; There are songs that make me laugh. There are songs that make me sing. This is a song that can make me cry. Not a comfortable song, but very beautiful, somewhat like the starlings.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nSay a prayer for the starlings<br \/>\nA hot, dry wind beats their ragged wings<br \/>\nHave a thought for the starlings<br \/>\nNo one ever listens to the songs they sing<br \/>\nSay a prayer for the starlings<br \/>\nThere&#8217;s no welcome for them anywhere<br \/>\nLeave some crumbs for the starlings<br \/>\nThey say that Winter will be cold this year\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Are you a fan of starlings? Or do you see them as a curse, a thorn in the farmers&#8217; side? Randy Stonehill, one of my favorite singers, used them as a metaphor for those we prefer not to see. &#x201c;She was sitting on a curb by the Seven Eleven.&#x201d; There are songs that make me &hellip; <a class=\"read-excerpt\" href=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=2183\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&raquo;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2183"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2183"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2183\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2194,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2183\/revisions\/2194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}