{"id":39,"date":"2020-01-10T15:21:57","date_gmt":"2020-01-10T15:21:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.minchacademy.net\/poetry\/?p=39"},"modified":"2020-01-10T15:27:06","modified_gmt":"2020-01-10T15:27:06","slug":"poached","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.minchacademy.net\/poetry\/2020\/01\/10\/poached\/","title":{"rendered":"Poached"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><u>Poached<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Darting through trees,<\/p>\n<p>A bird swooped and played,<\/p>\n<p>He soared,<\/p>\n<p>He felt free, free as the wind,<\/p>\n<p>He felt unstoppable, invincible,<\/p>\n<p>A ray of light, his golden feathers shone,<\/p>\n<p>He was joy, he was its plaything.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>SNAP<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Footsteps crunched closer,<\/p>\n<p>It was a poacher,<\/p>\n<p>The poacher stalked his pray,<\/p>\n<p>Closer\u2026<\/p>\n<p>And closer\u2026<\/p>\n<p>He raised his gun-<\/p>\n<p>And froze-<\/p>\n<p>And thought\u2026<\/p>\n<p>And thought\u2026<\/p>\n<p>And thought\u2026<\/p>\n<p>He lowered his gun.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>His mind raced, images ran to his head,<\/p>\n<p>Imagine, imagine you were a bird,<\/p>\n<p>Diving, playing, hooting,<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>BANG<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>And shot down for fun<\/p>\n<p>Fun<\/p>\n<p>Fun<\/p>\n<p>Is killing really fun?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>By Hugo<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Poached Darting through trees, A bird swooped and played, He soared, He felt free, free as the wind, He felt unstoppable, invincible, A ray of light, his golden feathers shone, He was joy, he was its plaything. &nbsp; SNAP \u00a0 Footsteps crunched closer, It was a poacher, The poacher stalked his pray, Closer\u2026 And closer\u2026 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.minchacademy.net\/poetry\/2020\/01\/10\/poached\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Poached&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.minchacademy.net\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.minchacademy.net\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.minchacademy.net\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.minchacademy.net\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.minchacademy.net\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.minchacademy.net\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.minchacademy.net\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.minchacademy.net\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.minchacademy.net\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}