{"id":1374,"date":"2022-12-09T13:55:16","date_gmt":"2022-12-09T19:55:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shareletter.milwaukeequakers.org\/?p=1374"},"modified":"2022-12-09T13:55:16","modified_gmt":"2022-12-09T19:55:16","slug":"on-the-bluff-overlooking-grandfather-falls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shareletter.milwaukeequakers.org\/?p=1374","title":{"rendered":"On the Bluff Overlooking Grandfather Falls"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>By Carolyn Muchhala<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Twilight. Late autumn. A whoosh of wings above,<br>so close I instinctively duck. A barred owl<br>lands on an oak branch not five feet from where I walk<br>and turns its black-plastic eyes on me. Transfixed,<br>I watch it watching me. Neither moves. The woods still.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Finally I start walking. The owl follows, winging<br>from branch to branch as if weaving the air overhead.<br>Unsettled, I turn back and round the bend toward the cabin.<br>Again my escort swoops and perches. Silhouetted<br>against a window, yellow-lit, that owl<br>watched me watching it until I disappeared inside.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Some believe in spirits or in messages from beyond.<br>This life gives all the glory I can handle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Published in Birdsong: poems in celebration of birds, Foothills Publishing, 2016;<br>Your Daily Poem, posted November 30, 2018.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Some believe in spirits&#8230;this life gives all the glory I can handle.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Sketch by Carolyn Muchhala<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":1359,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[100],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-december-2022"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareletter.milwaukeequakers.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1374","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareletter.milwaukeequakers.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareletter.milwaukeequakers.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareletter.milwaukeequakers.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareletter.milwaukeequakers.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1374"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/shareletter.milwaukeequakers.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1374\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1376,"href":"https:\/\/shareletter.milwaukeequakers.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1374\/revisions\/1376"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareletter.milwaukeequakers.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareletter.milwaukeequakers.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareletter.milwaukeequakers.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareletter.milwaukeequakers.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}