{"id":251,"date":"2010-08-30T04:51:00","date_gmt":"2010-08-30T04:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/?p=251"},"modified":"2014-10-01T03:06:19","modified_gmt":"2014-10-01T03:06:19","slug":"careful-scrutiny","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/?p=251","title":{"rendered":"Careful scrutiny"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/juvbcnightheron.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 247px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/juvbcnightheron-300x185.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\"id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5511030341123378514\" \/><\/a>I&#8217;d wanted to write<br \/>about night herons<br \/>and their delight in the lowest tides<br \/>their thankless patience<br \/>their red eyes and startling cries in the gloom of night<\/p>\n<p>or the careful scrutiny of a gull&#8217;s eye<br \/>under the august sun<br \/>as the tide goes out<br \/>and sanderling plunder the wrack-line at my feet<\/p>\n<p>instead there&#8217;s the moon rising, lopsided and yellow<br \/>the promise of a little prince, enjoyed together<br \/>this deliberate probing of a heart&#8217;s memory<br \/>and the shared revelation<br \/>of a whimbrel&#8217;s decurved bill.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;d wanted to writeabout night heronsand their delight in the lowest tidestheir thankless patiencetheir red eyes and startling cries in the gloom of night or the careful scrutiny of a gull&#8217;s eyeunder the august sunas the tide goes outand sanderling plunder the wrack-line at my feet instead there&#8217;s the moon rising, lopsided and yellowthe promise &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/?p=251\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Careful scrutiny<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2188,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7,24,15,2,8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=251"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}