{"id":941,"date":"2021-06-30T12:15:50","date_gmt":"2021-06-30T19:15:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/?p=941"},"modified":"2021-06-30T12:15:50","modified_gmt":"2021-06-30T19:15:50","slug":"leaping-fences","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/2021\/06\/30\/leaping-fences\/","title":{"rendered":"Leaping Fences"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Screen-Shot-2021-06-30-at-11.46.50-AM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Screen-Shot-2021-06-30-at-11.46.50-AM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"407\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-942\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Screen-Shot-2021-06-30-at-11.46.50-AM.png 550w, https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Screen-Shot-2021-06-30-at-11.46.50-AM-300x222.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><strong>Leaping Fences<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">When I saw<br \/>\ntwo fawns,<br \/>\nstill glistening,<br \/>\nstill trembling,<br \/>\nfrom birth,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">I wondered:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">Do these<br \/>\nLittle Ones<br \/>\nknow they were<br \/>\nborn able,<br \/>\nsoon enough,<br \/>\nto soar over the<br \/>\nneighbor\u2019s fence,<br \/>\nlike dancers,<br \/>\nand dine on<br \/>\nazaleas?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">Do they know<br \/>\nthey won\u2019t always<br \/>\nneed to be<br \/>\nso closely<br \/>\nguarded by<br \/>\nMama Doe?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">Then<br \/>\nI wondered,<br \/>\nagain:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">When  I<br \/>\nsometimes<br \/>\npray,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">desperate to be<br \/>\nclosely guarded,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">have I forgotten<br \/>\nI was<br \/>\nborn able,<br \/>\nsoon enough,<br \/>\nto leap fences?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Leaping Fences When I saw two fawns, still glistening, still trembling, from birth, I wondered: Do these Little Ones know they were born able, soon enough, to soar over the neighbor\u2019s fence, like dancers, and dine on azaleas? Do they know they won\u2019t always need to be so closely guarded by Mama Doe? Then [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-941","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poems"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/941","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=941"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/941\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":943,"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/941\/revisions\/943"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}