{"id":30170,"date":"2019-03-10T12:46:37","date_gmt":"2019-03-10T17:46:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/?p=30170"},"modified":"2019-03-17T15:54:14","modified_gmt":"2019-03-17T20:54:14","slug":"poetry-sunday-18","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/?p=30170","title":{"rendered":"Poetry Sunday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>The Two-Headed Calf<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Tomorrow when the farm boys find this<br \/>\nfreak of nature, they will wrap his body<br \/>\nin newspaper and carry him to the museum.<\/p>\n<p>But tonight he is alive and in the north<br \/>\nfield with his mother. It is a perfect<br \/>\nsummer evening: the moon rising over<br \/>\nthe orchard, the wind in the grass. And<br \/>\nas he stares into the sky, there are<br \/>\ntwice as many stars as usual.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Laura Gilpin<br \/>\n<i>(Found via <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ambernoelle\/status\/1102340734886268928\">@ambernoelle<\/a>)<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Update: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/moby_dickhead\/status\/1106275155599392769\">Adam Ellis<\/a> illustrated the poem:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/twoheadedcalf.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/twoheadedcalf-240x300.jpg\" alt=\"Two-Headed Calf\" width=\"240\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-30213\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/twoheadedcalf-240x300.jpg 240w, http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/twoheadedcalf-120x150.jpg 120w, http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/twoheadedcalf-768x960.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/twoheadedcalf-819x1024.jpg 819w, http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/twoheadedcalf.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Two-Headed Calf Tomorrow when the farm boys find this freak of nature, they will wrap his body in newspaper and carry him to the museum. But tonight he is alive and in the north field with his mother. It is a perfect summer evening: the moon rising over the orchard, the wind in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-whatever"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30170","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30170"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30170\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30214,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30170\/revisions\/30214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}