{"id":1337,"date":"2013-01-28T16:53:58","date_gmt":"2013-01-29T00:53:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kathleenflenniken.com\/blog\/?p=1337"},"modified":"2013-01-28T16:54:18","modified_gmt":"2013-01-29T00:54:18","slug":"kathleen-smith","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/kathleenflenniken.com\/blog\/?p=1337","title":{"rendered":"Kathleen Smith"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Crows<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Our dreams are like crows:<br \/>\nmessengers from the other side.<br \/>\nThey get about as much respect.<br \/>\nWe\u2019re not pleased with their harsh voices<br \/>\nor the carrion they strew.<\/p>\n<p>I have heard crows mock a dozen other birds.<br \/>\nThe shadows, it seems, do not speak directly.<br \/>\nAnd just so, dreams. Their dark lightning gashes<br \/>\nthe rounded landscapes of our well-kept souls.<br \/>\nTheir wild voices mock our measured tones.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Early on, <a href=\"http:\/\/oyezroslyn.com\/\">Kathleen Smith<\/a> had the good fortune to encounter a wide variety of working poets. Influenced most by the Montana poets, Kathleen has been writing since 1965. Recent retirement in Roslyn has freed up more time for writing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Crows &nbsp; Our dreams are like crows: messengers from the other side. They get about as much respect. We\u2019re not pleased with their harsh voices or the carrion they strew. I have heard crows mock a dozen other birds. The &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/kathleenflenniken.com\/blog\/?p=1337\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[188,37,8],"tags":[441,440],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/kathleenflenniken.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1337"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/kathleenflenniken.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/kathleenflenniken.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kathleenflenniken.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kathleenflenniken.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1337"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/kathleenflenniken.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1337\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1339,"href":"http:\/\/kathleenflenniken.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1337\/revisions\/1339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/kathleenflenniken.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kathleenflenniken.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kathleenflenniken.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}