{"id":3003,"date":"2012-06-26T21:37:26","date_gmt":"2012-06-27T02:37:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.e357.net\/beingernest\/?p=3003"},"modified":"2012-06-26T21:56:23","modified_gmt":"2012-06-27T02:56:23","slug":"reflection-on-the-classic-chicken-question","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/e357.net\/beingernest\/reflection-on-the-classic-chicken-question\/","title":{"rendered":"Reflection on the Classic Chicken Question"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div id=\"attachment_3006\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.e357.net\/beingernest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/chicken_road.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3006\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3006\" title=\"chicken_road\" src=\"http:\/\/www.e357.net\/beingernest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/chicken_road-300x158.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"158\" srcset=\"https:\/\/e357.net\/beingernest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/chicken_road-300x158.jpg 300w, https:\/\/e357.net\/beingernest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/chicken_road.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3006\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">- - -<\/p>\n<p>Looking back across<br \/>\nthe black expanse,<br \/>\nI clucked to myself,<br \/>\nwondering.<\/p>\n<p>Beak canted,<br \/>\nbeady eyes narrowed,<br \/>\nI knew the answer.<br \/>\nOnce.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe, I left it there,<br \/>\nOn the other side.<\/p>\n<p>- Ernest Lilley<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>Oddly enough, this was originally a FB comment on a cartoon my poet friend Mary McElveen posted, which got picked up with a few other pieces by a local paper for it&#8217;s blogger: <a href=\"http:\/\/dverner.blogspot.com\/2012\/04\/poems-of-week-chicken-poetry-fest-2012.html\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/dverner.blogspot.com\/2012\/04\/poems-of-week-chicken-poetry-fest-2012.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8211; Oddly enough, this was originally a FB comment on a cartoon my poet friend Mary McElveen posted, which got picked up with a few other pieces by a local paper for it&#8217;s blogger: http:\/\/dverner.blogspot.com\/2012\/04\/poems-of-week-chicken-poetry-fest-2012.html &nbsp; &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3003","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/e357.net\/beingernest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3003","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/e357.net\/beingernest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/e357.net\/beingernest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e357.net\/beingernest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e357.net\/beingernest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3003"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/e357.net\/beingernest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3003\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3005,"href":"https:\/\/e357.net\/beingernest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3003\/revisions\/3005"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/e357.net\/beingernest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e357.net\/beingernest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e357.net\/beingernest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}