{"id":1181,"date":"2007-06-22T10:19:10","date_gmt":"2007-06-22T15:19:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ironwil.net\/writings\/2007\/06\/22\/o-silent-morning\/"},"modified":"2007-06-22T10:19:10","modified_gmt":"2007-06-22T15:19:10","slug":"o-silent-morning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ironwil.net\/cs\/2007\/06\/o-silent-morning\/","title":{"rendered":"O Silent Morning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s a peaceful morning<br \/>\non quite mountains;<br \/>\nIn a distant mountain range,<br \/>\nan eagle&#8217;s cry pierces the dawn<br \/>\nand shatters the morning calm.<\/p>\n<p>The mist rises from the vales<br \/>\nas Kalen climbs the mountain sides.<br \/>\nHis radiant countenance chasing<br \/>\naway the nights dark veil;<br \/>\nand the mist rises from the vale.<\/p>\n<p>The eagle circles once, then twice<br \/>\n&amp; takes the dive;<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s prey bounding unwarily<br \/>\nin the open field.<br \/>\nThe eagles talons spread, sharp<br \/>\n&amp; ready to wield.<\/p>\n<p>The rabbits blood lays on the field,<br \/>\nthe bird twenty feet in the air;<br \/>\nthe bunny&#8217;s mangled body<br \/>\nhanging from it&#8217;s feet.<br \/>\nIf you could hear,<br \/>\nthe only sound would be the wing&#8217;s beat.<\/p>\n<p>As this work of art flies west &#8211;<br \/>\nKalen launches himself full into the sky;<br \/>\nhis light creates rainbows &#8211;<br \/>\nbelow in the rising mists<br \/>\nand the rays dance across the eagles back &amp; tail.<\/p>\n<p align=\"right\">wil becker<br \/>\n1993.06.13\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-nc-sa\/3.0\/us\/\" rel=\"license\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/images\/public\/somerights20.png\" alt=\"Creative Commons License\" style=\"border-width:0;\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s a peaceful morning on quite mountains; In a distant mountain range, an eagle&#8217;s cry pierces the dawn and shatters the morning calm. The mist rises from the vales as Kalen climbs the mountain sides. His radiant countenance chasing away the nights dark veil; and the mist rises from the vale. The eagle circles once, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[191],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wrote"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ironwil.net\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1181","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ironwil.net\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ironwil.net\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ironwil.net\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ironwil.net\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1181"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.ironwil.net\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1181\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ironwil.net\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ironwil.net\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ironwil.net\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}