{"id":574,"date":"2018-05-19T17:33:51","date_gmt":"2018-05-19T08:03:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kristinmartin.net\/?page_id=574"},"modified":"2025-01-21T10:45:53","modified_gmt":"2025-01-21T01:15:53","slug":"pelicans","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/kristinmartin.net\/?page_id=574","title":{"rendered":"Pelicans"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kristinmartin.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/671A6893-EEBF-47B9-BE48-99833D17A455_1_102_a.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"480\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/kristinmartin.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/671A6893-EEBF-47B9-BE48-99833D17A455_1_102_a.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1407\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n<\/p>\n<p>I watch a line of pelicans slip sleekly through the sky.<br \/>They always look so elegant when flying way up high.<\/p>\n<p>But when they land, their elegance gets lost without a trace;<br \/>it seems a pack of bumbling clowns is waddling in their place.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a9 Kristin Martin 2018<\/p>\n<p>This poem was first published in\u00a0<i>Blast Off<\/i>, Issue No. 2, The School Magazine, March 2018, and then was published again in my poetry book,\u00a0<em>To Rhyme or Not to Rhyme?\u00a0<\/em>(Glimmer Press, 2019).<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I watch a line of pelicans slip sleekly through the sky.They always look so elegant when flying way up high. But when they land, their elegance gets lost without a trace;it seems a pack of bumbling clowns is waddling in their place. \u00a9 Kristin Martin 2018 This poem was first published in\u00a0Blast Off, Issue No. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":477,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-574","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kristinmartin.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/574","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=574"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/kristinmartin.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/574\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1413,"href":"https:\/\/kristinmartin.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/574\/revisions\/1413"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kristinmartin.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kristinmartin.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}