{"id":193,"date":"2014-02-02T08:31:24","date_gmt":"2014-02-01T23:01:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kristinmartin.net\/?page_id=193"},"modified":"2025-01-21T14:21:28","modified_gmt":"2025-01-21T04:51:28","slug":"the-wise-old-flamingo","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/kristinmartin.net\/?page_id=193","title":{"rendered":"The Wise Old Flamingo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kristinmartin.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/B392F485-2D29-44D0-BF23-94F021575031.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1470\" src=\"https:\/\/kristinmartin.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/B392F485-2D29-44D0-BF23-94F021575031.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"528\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Flamingo is the oldest<br \/>\nof the creatures at the zoo.<br \/>\nShe&#8217;s lived for many decades,<br \/>\nand she seems quite happy, too.<\/p>\n<p>So she&#8217;s the perfect creature<br \/>\nwho you\u2019d go to for advice<br \/>\non how to stay quite cheerful<br \/>\nand to live a life that\u2019s nice.<\/p>\n<p>I visited, last Monday,<br \/>\nher enclosure at the zoo.<br \/>\nI waded in and asked her,<br \/>\n&#8216;what are things I ought to do?&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>She didn\u2019t make a sound<br \/>\nbut there was hardly any need.<br \/>\nHer actions spoke quite loudly<br \/>\nthere amongst the water weed.<\/p>\n<p>She showed me very clearly<br \/>\njust the perfect way to be:<br \/>\nstand quietly,<br \/>\nin water,<br \/>\non one foot<br \/>\nbeneath a tree.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a9 Kristin Martin 2014<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Flamingo is the oldest of the creatures at the zoo. She&#8217;s lived for many decades, and she seems quite happy, too. So she&#8217;s the perfect creature who you\u2019d go to for advice on how to stay quite cheerful and to live a life that\u2019s nice. I visited, last Monday, her enclosure at the zoo. I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":481,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-193","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kristinmartin.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/193","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kristinmartin.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kristinmartin.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kristinmartin.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kristinmartin.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=193"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/kristinmartin.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/193\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1481,"href":"https:\/\/kristinmartin.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/193\/revisions\/1481"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kristinmartin.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kristinmartin.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}