{"id":813,"date":"2012-03-21T12:27:16","date_gmt":"2012-03-21T12:27:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/studentweb.bellevuecollege.edu\/belletrist\/?p=813"},"modified":"2015-03-26T07:08:29","modified_gmt":"2015-03-26T07:08:29","slug":"robin-at-vespers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/studentweb.bellevuecollege.edu\/belletrist\/robin-at-vespers\/","title":{"rendered":"Robin at Vespers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>by <a title=\"Robin at Vespers\" href=\"https:\/\/studentweb.bellevuecollege.edu\/belletrist\/wp-admin\/post.php?post=377&amp;action=edit\">Mike Beasley<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u201cHey Daddy, we shouldn\u2019t call him Redbreast<br \/>\nBecause his breast is not red, really.<br \/>\nIt looks more like rust, like that patch<br \/>\nOn the bed of my red wagon left out in the rain,<br \/>\nOr that rusty shade of sunlight draped<br \/>\nOver the neighbor\u2019s porch railing.<br \/>\nSo we should call him Robin Rustbreast. . .\u201d<br \/>\nThus goes my son\u2019s sermon as he mounts<br \/>\nThe beam of our snow-white front porch.<\/p>\n<p>Snow white? Wait:<br \/>\nIt\u2019s just a wood railing painted white,<br \/>\nAnother made object in the vespered light.<br \/>\nWhat forged link, what coupling, what tie<br \/>\nHath \u2018snow\u2019 with \u2018white\u2019 except to magnify<br \/>\nThe skin and soul of a fairy-tale maiden<br \/>\nTricked into death by a loathsome hag,<br \/>\nKissed back to breath by a chivalrous stag?<\/p>\n<p>And what sunset hue lies on that lake horizon?<br \/>\nRobin-egg blue, you call it; not precisely, I say.<br \/>\nIt is one of our blues, I grant\u2014but whose?<br \/>\nYour blues and my blues are hardly the same;<br \/>\nThey float elusive, like vagabond shades<br \/>\nWandering in the universe beneath our skin.<\/p>\n<p>Plato reasons that Robin Redbreast is,<br \/>\nWhether or not we agree on its name.<br \/>\nI\u2019m game. Consensus is a fragile shelter,<br \/>\nBut shelter nonetheless. Besides, son,<br \/>\nYour mom claims that dinner is ready,<br \/>\nAnd I\u2019m pretty sure of something:<br \/>\nYou and I are starving.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Mike Beasley \u201cHey Daddy, we shouldn\u2019t call him Redbreast Because his breast is not red, really. It looks more like rust, like that patch On the bed of my red wagon left out in the rain, Or that rusty &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/studentweb.bellevuecollege.edu\/belletrist\/robin-at-vespers\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2012-edition","category-previous-editions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentweb.bellevuecollege.edu\/belletrist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/813","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentweb.bellevuecollege.edu\/belletrist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentweb.bellevuecollege.edu\/belletrist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentweb.bellevuecollege.edu\/belletrist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentweb.bellevuecollege.edu\/belletrist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=813"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/studentweb.bellevuecollege.edu\/belletrist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/813\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1209,"href":"https:\/\/studentweb.bellevuecollege.edu\/belletrist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/813\/revisions\/1209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentweb.bellevuecollege.edu\/belletrist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentweb.bellevuecollege.edu\/belletrist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentweb.bellevuecollege.edu\/belletrist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}