{"id":3985,"date":"2012-08-16T12:00:01","date_gmt":"2012-08-16T16:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/?page_id=3985"},"modified":"2012-08-16T12:00:01","modified_gmt":"2012-08-16T16:00:01","slug":"whip-poor-will","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/whip-poor-will\/","title":{"rendered":"Whip-Poor-Will"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As the last light<br \/>\nof June withdraws<br \/>\nthe whip-poor-will sings<br \/>\nhis clear brief notes<br \/>\nby the darkening house, then<br \/>\nrises abruptly from sandy<br \/>\nground, a brown bird<br \/>\nin the near-night, soaring<br \/>\nover shed and woodshed<br \/>\nto far dark fields. When<br \/>\nhe returns at dawn,<br \/>\nin my sleep I hear<br \/>\nhis three syllables make<br \/>\na man\u2019s name, who slept<br \/>\nfifty years in this bed<br \/>\nand ploughed these fields:<br \/>\n<em>Wes-ley-Wells&#8230;Wes-<br \/>\nley-Wells&#8230;<\/em><br \/>\n\t       It is good<br \/>\nto wake early in high<br \/>\nsummer with work to do,<br \/>\nand look out the window<br \/>\nat a ghost bird lifting away<br \/>\nto drowse all morning<br \/>\nin his grassy hut.<\/p>\n<p><em>-Donald Hall<\/em><\/p>\n<!--themify_builder_content-->\n<div id=\"themify_builder_content-3985\" data-postid=\"3985\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-3985 themify_builder tf_clear\">\n    <\/div>\n<!--\/themify_builder_content-->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the last light of June withdraws the whip-poor-will sings his clear brief notes by the darkening house, then rises abruptly from sandy ground, a brown bird in the near-night, soaring over shed and woodshed to far dark fields. When he returns at dawn, in my sleep I hear his three syllables make a man\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2341,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"builder_content":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3985"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2341"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3985"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3985\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3986,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3985\/revisions\/3986"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}