{"id":3058,"date":"2012-05-26T14:15:49","date_gmt":"2012-05-26T14:15:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/?p=3058"},"modified":"2012-05-26T14:15:49","modified_gmt":"2012-05-26T14:15:49","slug":"ants-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/2012\/05\/ants-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Ants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ants move back and forth along their highway<br \/>\nCertain of it, as we are certain of tolls and bridges<br \/>\nIce cream and fridges<\/p>\n<p>Sped up with sun, racing to escape the season<br \/>\nAnts know their business<br \/>\nGreetings a chemical exchange<br \/>\nLegs, antennae<br \/>\nAccomplishing wordless natter<br \/>\nAs they move in purposeful bursts<br \/>\nRun &#8211; stop. Run &#8211; stop. Examine:<br \/>\nA determined back and forth between military bases<\/p>\n<p>Armoured, building site-ready<br \/>\nPrepared to deal with interlopers, to drag a fat moth single-handed<br \/>\nBack to the communal larder<br \/>\nEven to dissect a fellow half-crushed<br \/>\nAnd return it for some unimaginably unsentimental fate<\/p>\n<p>Ants lead parallel lives<br \/>\nWhich we neither interrupt, nor follow<br \/>\nNor fully understand<br \/>\nAnts confuse with common purpose<br \/>\nDetermine their own fate<br \/>\nAs if we were insubstantial, irrelevant<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/aouniat\/3060356904\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/ant.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"ant\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3059\" srcset=\"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/ant.jpg 500w, https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/ant-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ants move back and forth along their highway Certain of it, as we are certain of tolls and bridges Ice cream and fridges Sped up with sun, racing to escape the season Ants know their business Greetings a chemical exchange Legs, antennae Accomplishing wordless natter As they move in purposeful bursts Run &#8211; stop. Run [&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],"class_list":["post-3058","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry","tag-ants"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3058","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=3058"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3058\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3061,"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3058\/revisions\/3061"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}