{"id":2148,"date":"2012-06-18T12:20:02","date_gmt":"2012-06-18T20:20:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/heatherhaley.com\/onelife\/?p=1969"},"modified":"2012-06-18T12:20:02","modified_gmt":"2012-06-18T20:20:02","slug":"when-babies-fly-the-truth-perchance-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/heatherhaley.com\/hh2\/?p=2148","title":{"rendered":"WHEN BABIES FLY; THE TRUTH PERCHANCE?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/heatherhaley.com\/onelife\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/310837_10150332627107038_2109608598_n1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/heatherhaley.com\/onelife\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/310837_10150332627107038_2109608598_n1.jpg?resize=96%2C137\" alt=\"\" title=\"310837_10150332627107038_2109608598_n\" width=\"96\" height=\"137\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1973\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"height: 1.4em; visibility: hidden;\">1<\/div>\n<p>I had a disturbing dream, surely inspired by the Houla massacre, which some people are claiming was a hoax. Keerist. It&#8217;s not as if children don&#8217;t die in civil wars. In any case, I don&#8217;t have much to say-or spin-or would rather put it in verse.<\/p>\n<div style=\"height: 1.4em; visibility: hidden;\">1<\/div>\n<p><strong>DISPATCH<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>An infant is not a toy.<br \/>\nAn infant cannot breathe underwater<br \/>\nOr fly though the air. Do not drape it<br \/>\nOver the prone man\u2019s head<\/p>\n<p>Or dress it up like a doll.<br \/>\nAn alias views the grisly scene.<br \/>\nPosts. Shares. Tweets.<br \/>\nForeign observers abort,<\/p>\n<p>Prominent commentators punt<br \/>\nBut the drunken skipper acts,<br \/>\nOrdering clean sheets and neat rows<br \/>\nDown below in the hold,<\/p>\n<p>Rogue Unidentified Man<br \/>\nHoisting the limp boy aloft,<br \/>\nManipulating our feelings.<br \/>\nLet\u2019s not quibble.<\/p>\n<p>It matters not if the child<br \/>\nIs southern or northern,<br \/>\nGrew spurs or knew pride.<br \/>\nIt is as good as dead. <\/p>\n<p>Crooked passages.<br \/>\nLimping messengers.<br \/>\nFrantic, tail-chasing-dog orbits.<br \/>\nA million ships couldn\u2019t transport us.<\/p>\n<div style=\"height: 1.4em; visibility: hidden;\">1<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1 I had a disturbing dream, surely inspired by the Houla massacre, which some people are claiming was a hoax. Keerist. It&#8217;s not as if children don&#8217;t die in civil wars. In any case, I don&#8217;t have much to say-or spin-or would rather put it in verse. 1 DISPATCH An infant is not a toy. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[149,156,236],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/heatherhaley.com\/hh2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2148"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/heatherhaley.com\/hh2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/heatherhaley.com\/hh2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/heatherhaley.com\/hh2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/heatherhaley.com\/hh2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2148"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/heatherhaley.com\/hh2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2148\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/heatherhaley.com\/hh2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/heatherhaley.com\/hh2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/heatherhaley.com\/hh2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}