{"id":2354,"date":"2010-07-21T13:25:17","date_gmt":"2010-07-21T13:25:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/?p=2354"},"modified":"2010-07-21T13:25:17","modified_gmt":"2010-07-21T13:25:17","slug":"ants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/2010\/07\/ants\/","title":{"rendered":"Ants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sped up with sun, racing to escape the season<br \/>\nAnts know their business<br \/>\nAs they move in purposeful bursts<br \/>\nRun &#8211; stop. Run &#8211; stop. Examine.<\/p>\n<p>Determined they move back and forth<br \/>\nBetween military bases<br \/>\nArmoured, building site-ready<br \/>\nPrepared to deal with interlopers,<br \/>\nDrag a fat moth single-handed<br \/>\nBack to the communal larder<br \/>\nEven to dissect a fellow ant, half-crushed<br \/>\nAnd return it for some unimaginably unsentimental fate.<\/p>\n<p>A comrade met matter of fact<br \/>\nA chemical exchange<br \/>\nWaving legs and antennae<br \/>\nAccomplished in half a second<br \/>\nThe equivalent of a good afternoon<br \/>\n Natter spent discussing horses<\/p>\n<p>Ants lead parallel lives<br \/>\nWhich we neither interrupt nor follow<br \/>\nAs they move back and forth along their highway<br \/>\nCertain of it, as we are certain of tolls and bridges,<br \/>\nIce creams and fridges<\/p>\n<p><A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/viamoi\/2213749929\/\"><IMG SRC=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2378\/2213749929_84dbac39f5.jpg\"><\/A><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sped up with sun, racing to escape the season Ants know their business As they move in purposeful bursts Run &#8211; stop. Run &#8211; stop. Examine. Determined they move back and forth Between military bases Armoured, building site-ready Prepared to deal with interlopers, Drag a fat moth single-handed Back to the communal larder Even to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":126,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[451,452,209],"class_list":["post-2354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry","tag-ants","tag-norway","tag-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2354","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/126"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2354"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2354\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2355,"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2354\/revisions\/2355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}