{"id":1868,"date":"2010-12-09T20:40:39","date_gmt":"2010-12-10T02:40:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rockaria.net\/bluebirdprairie\/?p=1868"},"modified":"2010-12-15T21:37:15","modified_gmt":"2010-12-16T03:37:15","slug":"blue-spruce","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rockaria.net\/bluebirdprairie\/?p=1868","title":{"rendered":"Blue Spruce"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mceTemp mceIEcenter\">\n<dl id=\"attachment_1869\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"width: 635px;\">\n<dt class=\"wp-caption-dt\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-large wp-image-1869\" title=\"blue spruce 001\" src=\"http:\/\/rockaria.net\/bluebirdprairie\/wp-content\/uploads\/blue-spruce-001-625x468.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"625\" height=\"468\" srcset=\"http:\/\/rockaria.net\/bluebirdprairie\/wp-content\/uploads\/blue-spruce-001-625x468.jpg 625w, http:\/\/rockaria.net\/bluebirdprairie\/wp-content\/uploads\/blue-spruce-001-150x112.jpg 150w, http:\/\/rockaria.net\/bluebirdprairie\/wp-content\/uploads\/blue-spruce-001-450x337.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 625px) 100vw, 625px\" \/><\/dt>\n<dd class=\"wp-caption-dd\"> Dec. 5, 2010<\/p>\n<p><br class=\"spacer_\" \/><\/p>\n<p>God Bless<\/p>\n<p>Whoever planted two Colorado Blue Spruce<\/p>\n<p>close to the house, but not too close, near to where the feeders are now<\/p>\n<p>shelter for bird&#8217;s young  all summer,<\/p>\n<p>shelter for puffed cold birds in winter,<\/p>\n<p>shelter for  drinking water.<\/p>\n<p>Who planted them so long ago?<\/p>\n<p>They tower far past the  roof of this place,once the Nelson farm.<\/p>\n<p>I think the barn was  here  where we live, the old farmhouse is across the street.<\/p>\n<p>I feel my  steps retrace ones from long ago.<\/p>\n<p>I carry food and water for birds,<\/p>\n<p>but  I can smell the musty barn,<\/p>\n<p>hear cows moan and heave a sigh,  chickens  flutter and twitter.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you, tree planter,<\/p>\n<p>thank you, Great  Mystery,<\/p>\n<p>thank you, lucky stars  that led us to this place.<\/p>\n<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dec. 5, 2010 God Bless Whoever planted two Colorado Blue Spruce close to the house, but not too close, near to where the feeders are now shelter for bird&#8217;s young all summer, shelter for puffed cold birds in winter, shelter for drinking water. Who planted them so long ago? They tower far past the roof [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rockaria.net\/bluebirdprairie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1868"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rockaria.net\/bluebirdprairie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rockaria.net\/bluebirdprairie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rockaria.net\/bluebirdprairie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rockaria.net\/bluebirdprairie\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1868"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"http:\/\/rockaria.net\/bluebirdprairie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1868\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1872,"href":"http:\/\/rockaria.net\/bluebirdprairie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1868\/revisions\/1872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rockaria.net\/bluebirdprairie\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rockaria.net\/bluebirdprairie\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rockaria.net\/bluebirdprairie\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}