{"id":594,"date":"2022-04-03T17:55:29","date_gmt":"2022-04-03T21:55:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ajaxkallistrate.com\/?p=594"},"modified":"2022-04-05T06:42:21","modified_gmt":"2022-04-05T10:42:21","slug":"april","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ajaxkallistrate.com\/?p=594","title":{"rendered":"the first of april"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse\">how fast does a sparrow's heart\nbeat that frantic drum in its tiniest\nbreast pocket of life that springing\nleaping spark chirruping competing\nwith the roar of diesel brakes and\nafternoon traffic in a hungry\nfrenzy to claim some self-\nenclosed space driven\nby ancestral flight\nfeathers to hold\non hold still\nremain in\ndanger a\ntarget\na morsel\nfor some other\nancestrally driven\npocket of protein dragged\ntoward the same destination\nas the white-knuckled primate at\nthe helm of the machine one\nafter another green yellow\nred endless march along\na wandering path of\ndespair and con-\nfusion and\ncon-\ntemplation\nand mythology\nbeneath the frantic\nsparrow's heart bursting\nwith a song he sings in the\nname of relief in the name of\none brief moment unbowed by\nthe crushing weight of natural\nselection before the alarm\ntriggers monday morning\nfor a dime a dollar a\nsong a poem\nfor the\nacquisition\nof resources for\npower for a cardboard\ncutout opportunity for a\nmoist pair of eyes transfixed\nby a dancing mobile spinning\nspinning overhead tracing\ncontrast by contrast a\nsizzling flood of neural\npathways lighting up\nwith animal urges\ndisguised as\nheavenly\nimperatives in\nthe hearts of\nbipedal apes at a bus\nstop for one brief moment\nbeating in time to bird-\nsong on the first\nof april.<\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p>April 3, 2022<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>how fast does a sparrow&#8217;s heart beat that frantic drum&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/ajaxkallistrate.com\/?p=594\">Continue Reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">the first of april<\/span> <i class=\"fas fa-angle-right\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[35,2],"class_list":["post-594","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry","tag-35","tag-poetry","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ajaxkallistrate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/594","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ajaxkallistrate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ajaxkallistrate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ajaxkallistrate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ajaxkallistrate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=594"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ajaxkallistrate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/594\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ajaxkallistrate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ajaxkallistrate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ajaxkallistrate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}