{"id":11676,"date":"2020-06-03T07:12:45","date_gmt":"2020-06-03T11:12:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/?p=11676"},"modified":"2020-06-01T22:20:03","modified_gmt":"2020-06-02T02:20:03","slug":"winged-deliverance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/?p=11676","title":{"rendered":"Winged Deliverance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-11680 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/crows_03-2-300x235.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"235\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/crows_03-2-300x235.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/crows_03-2-1024x802.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/crows_03-2-768x602.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/crows_03-2-1536x1204.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/crows_03-2-2048x1605.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/crows_03-2-624x489.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I never quite remember what I\u2019m doing when I catch the black swirls out of the corner of my<\/p>\n<p>eye; but I have come to appreciate how crows have always demanded my attention.<\/p>\n<p>For as long as I can recall crows have captivated my imagination<\/p>\n<p>All-seeing swarthy figures flitting into my consciousness and<\/p>\n<p>Dark brown eyes staring through me, seizing my thoughts, causing me pause,<\/p>\n<p>to take stalk of what I have been doing, and whether I should continue.<\/p>\n<p>Then there is the clarion caw, snapping me back to reality<\/p>\n<p>In a matter of seconds this bird has again delivered me from my mindlessness.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8211; Chris George<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>June 2020\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I never quite remember what I\u2019m doing when I catch the black swirls out of the corner of my eye; but I have come to appreciate how crows have always demanded my attention. For as long as I can recall crows have captivated my imagination All-seeing swarthy figures flitting into my consciousness and Dark brown&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[80],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11676"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11676"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11676\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11681,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11676\/revisions\/11681"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}