{"id":3890,"date":"2020-03-10T22:55:35","date_gmt":"2020-03-11T05:55:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/?p=3890"},"modified":"2020-03-11T19:18:48","modified_gmt":"2020-03-12T02:18:48","slug":"along-the-river","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/2020\/03\/10\/along-the-river\/","title":{"rendered":"Along The River"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Tawny wings tail the Arkansas and their shadows brush Russian olive. A hoo! drifts along begging recognition. Drowning the scuttle of waves, a quavering reply invites determination. Feathers ripple towards cottonwoods, nudging the fading sunlight across leaves and between branches. He allows a hoot to stray ahead asking for her to answer with a wandering whistle. The night approaches with a dimming silence that hushes happenings of the day and offers silhouettes. Moonlight shifts over a hollow as a frayed figure sails with unfurled wings. They settle below the canopy and dust bark with steadied feathers, ceasing flight for tonight.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>From Guest Contributor Kristi Kerico <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Kristi is a psychology major at Pikes Peak Community College. She is studying to become a horticultural therapist. She currently works at a bookstore and volunteers at a zoo and nature center. She began writing  after enrolling in a creative writing course at PPCC. She enjoys poetry the most, considering it&#8217;s brief yet complex beauty. She also loves writing with a focus on nature.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tawny wings tail the Arkansas and their shadows brush Russian olive. A hoo! drifts along begging recognition. Drowning the scuttle of waves, a quavering reply invites determination. Feathers ripple towards cottonwoods, nudging the fading sunlight across leaves and between branches. He allows a hoot to stray ahead asking for her to answer with a wandering [&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":[8722,3914,2200,4461,5624,8724,4770,2543,3884,41,8725,8721,2658,3656,2665,8723,6747,3429,7994,1066,1838,7169,1947,1461,1769,2361],"class_list":["post-3890","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-100words","tag-arkansas","tag-bark","tag-branches","tag-canopy","tag-cottonwoods","tag-determination","tag-feathers","tag-figure","tag-flight","tag-guest-contributor","tag-hoot","tag-kristi-kerico","tag-leaves","tag-moonlight","tag-night","tag-olive","tag-recognition","tag-river","tag-russian","tag-shadows","tag-silence","tag-silhouettes","tag-sunlight","tag-waves","tag-whistle","tag-wings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3890","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3890"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3890\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3891,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3890\/revisions\/3891"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}