{"id":2189,"date":"2009-10-07T23:31:50","date_gmt":"2009-10-08T03:31:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/?p=2189"},"modified":"2009-10-09T14:48:22","modified_gmt":"2009-10-09T18:48:22","slug":"newbie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/2009\/10\/07\/newbie\/","title":{"rendered":"newbie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The new singers land in the chorus<br \/>\nlike fledgling birds on the field<br \/>\nafter rain and sun have driven<br \/>\neverything up for grabs.<\/p>\n<p>He sings beside me, puzzling<br \/>\nover the unfamiliar sheet music,<br \/>\nfinding a note, then losing it;<br \/>\ntaking flight, then <!--more-->tumbling to earth.<\/p>\n<p>We live in the heart of the harmony<br \/>\nin our section of the chorus,<br \/>\nand I love this place that he is trying<br \/>\nto learn to inhabit and learn.<\/p>\n<p>I was once a fledgling, dismayed<br \/>\nby the music, frustrated by my feathers,<br \/>\ndesperate to become a confident,<br \/>\ncompetent bird, able to feed myself.<\/p>\n<p>Now, I inhabit this field, the air,<br \/>\nI can stop on a dime, gobble<br \/>\na grub, stretch a delicious worm,<br \/>\nor sing perfect pitch. So will he.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are new members in our barbershop chorus. (#935) <a href=\"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/2009\/10\/07\/newbie\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,3],"tags":[993,716,594,717],"class_list":["post-2189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-barbershop-singing","category-poetry","tag-barbershop-singing","tag-bari","tag-baritone","tag-beginner"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2189","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2189"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2189\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}