{"id":433,"date":"2010-12-24T07:35:23","date_gmt":"2010-12-24T15:35:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/heatherhaley.com\/onelife\/?p=433"},"modified":"2010-12-24T07:35:23","modified_gmt":"2010-12-24T15:35:23","slug":"this-thing-for-birds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/heatherhaley.com\/hh2\/?p=433","title":{"rendered":"This thing for birds . . ."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/heatherhaley.com\/onelife\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/img_32041.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-435\" title=\"img_32041\" src=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/heatherhaley.com\/onelife\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/img_32041-150x100.jpg?resize=150%2C100\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"100\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I am not alone, though here in the dead of winter the poor things keep flying into the window, offing themselves, behaviour I associate with springtime when the males see their reflections as rivals. The jays can survive but the junkos cannot. I must put up a decal.<\/p>\n<p>Ah, insomnia! In my ruminating I&#8217;ve managed to write a recommendation for <a href=\"http:\/\/adventbookblog.com\/2010\/12\/23\/freedom-by-jonathan-franzen-recommended-by-heather-haley\/\">Books On The Radio Advent Book Blog<\/a>, Jonathan Franzen&#8217;s <em>Freedom<\/em>, with its Cerulean Warbler flitting throughout.<\/p>\n<p>Missing a dear comrade in the dead of night I find this bit of <em>King Lear <\/em>resonating:<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"gt_prof_statusmsg\" style=\"overflow: hidden; width: 166px;\">&#8220;Come, let&#8217;s away to prison:<br \/>\nWe two alone will sing like birds i&#8217; the cage:<br \/>\nWhen thou dost ask me blessing, I&#8217;ll kneel down,<br \/>\nAnd ask of thee forgiveness: so we&#8217;ll live,<br \/>\nAnd pray, and sing, and tell old tales, and laugh<br \/>\nAt gilded butterflies, and hear poor rogues<br \/>\nTalk of court news; and we&#8217;ll talk with them too,<br \/>\nWho loses and who wins; who&#8217;s in, who&#8217;s out;<br \/>\nAnd take upon&#8217;s the mystery of things,<br \/>\nAs if we were God&#8217;s spies.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Like birds indeed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am not alone, though here in the dead of winter the poor things keep flying into the window, offing themselves, behaviour I associate with springtime when the males see their reflections as rivals. The jays can survive but the junkos cannot. I must put up a decal. Ah, insomnia! In my ruminating I&#8217;ve managed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/heatherhaley.com\/hh2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433"}],"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=433"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/heatherhaley.com\/hh2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/heatherhaley.com\/hh2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/heatherhaley.com\/hh2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/heatherhaley.com\/hh2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}