{"id":3689,"date":"2013-01-13T08:35:52","date_gmt":"2013-01-13T15:35:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/macblaze.ca\/?p=3689"},"modified":"2013-01-13T08:39:14","modified_gmt":"2013-01-13T15:39:14","slug":"13","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/?p=3689","title":{"rendered":"13"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>13<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><br \/>\n<em>The Day the Beaver Came<\/em><\/strong><br \/>\n<em><br \/>\nCastor canadensis,<\/em><br \/>\n<em> Swept through morning fog<\/em><br \/>\n<em> Neither contrite nor wary,<\/em><br \/>\n<em> Seeming compatriot on his daily jog. <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Canadian beaver,<\/em><br \/>\n<em> Surveying his current pond<\/em><br \/>\n<em> No matter to him,<\/em><br \/>\n<em> Environs now concrete and lawn.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Sole Homo sapiens,<\/em><br \/>\n<em> Young and brave, full of inaction,<\/em><br \/>\n<em> Stares from the perimeter,<\/em><br \/>\n<em> Bereft of a relevant faction.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The beaver pauses,<\/em><br \/>\n<em> At the end of the lane<\/em><br \/>\n<em> Boldly he glances,<\/em><br \/>\n<em> At a young man\u2019s sadness and pain.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cWhy be alone,<\/em><br \/>\n<em> When you have yourself?\u201d<\/em><br \/>\n<em> He utters quite softly,<\/em><br \/>\n<em> \u201cNothing else ever provides such wealth.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cCome, I will teach you,<\/em><br \/>\n<em> The joy of the solitary\u201d<\/em><br \/>\n<em> He smiled and approached,<\/em><br \/>\n<em> \u201cLet us avant and be merry.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>So boy and beaver,<\/em><br \/>\n<em> Trod on into dawn<\/em><br \/>\n<em> Not one any longer,<\/em><br \/>\n<em> Now the companions of song.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/macblaze.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/20130109-181858.jpg\"><img class=\"alignnone size-full\" alt=\"20130109-181858.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/macblaze.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/20130109-181858.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>13 The Day the Beaver Came Castor canadensis, Swept through morning fog Neither contrite nor wary, Seeming compatriot on his daily jog. Canadian beaver, Surveying his current pond No matter to him, Environs now concrete and lawn. Sole Homo sapiens, Young and brave, full of inaction, Stares from the perimeter, Bereft of a relevant faction. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3,29],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3689"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3689"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3689\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}