{"id":634,"date":"2016-01-05T09:08:30","date_gmt":"2016-01-05T14:08:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/labyrinth\/2014-2015\/?p=634"},"modified":"2016-01-05T09:08:30","modified_gmt":"2016-01-05T14:08:30","slug":"the-bird-by-rachael-vannatta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/labyrinth\/the-bird-by-rachael-vannatta\/","title":{"rendered":"The Bird by Rachael Vannatta"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Is that bridge getting built?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Are you making your way?<\/p>\n<p>Your wings are broken,<\/p>\n<p>You can\u2019t return home<\/p>\n<p>The light appears in front of you<\/p>\n<p>You try to resist the pull<\/p>\n<p>Your body drags along the ground<\/p>\n<p>Your talons breaking off<\/p>\n<p><em>Flightless Bird, jealous, weeping<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Lost everything you had<\/p>\n<p>Never had a choice to go<\/p>\n<p>Never to take the sky again<\/p>\n<p>The bridge is getting built<\/p>\n<p>Pressing back the blackened trees<\/p>\n<p>The fog is churning round<\/p>\n<p>Making it hard to see<\/p>\n<p><em>The cat\u2019s silhouette is as big as a monster<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Pushing you away<\/p>\n<p>Crushing you beneath its weight<\/p>\n<p>Forcing you to leave<\/p>\n<p><em>Flightless bird, grounded, bleeding<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Inspired by lines from the songs:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Flightless Bird American Mouth [Iron and Wine]<\/p>\n<p>Sloom [Of Monsters and Men]<\/p>\n<p>Lost in My Mind [The Head and the Heart]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is that bridge getting built? Are you making your way? Your wings are broken, You can\u2019t return home The light<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/labyrinth\/the-bird-by-rachael-vannatta\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Bird by Rachael Vannatta<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-634","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/labyrinth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/634","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/labyrinth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/labyrinth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/labyrinth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/labyrinth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=634"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/labyrinth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/634\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":635,"href":"http:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/labyrinth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/634\/revisions\/635"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/labyrinth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/labyrinth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/labyrinth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}