{"id":1700,"date":"2018-04-11T12:58:39","date_gmt":"2018-04-11T19:58:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jjkpryde.com\/blog\/?p=1700"},"modified":"2018-04-11T13:12:13","modified_gmt":"2018-04-11T20:12:13","slug":"the-bald-eagles-of-bubble-duff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jjkpryde.com\/blog\/the-bald-eagles-of-bubble-duff\/","title":{"rendered":"The Bald Eagles of Bubble Duff"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>the jagged claws of the OooLYMPic mountains<\/div>\n<div>reach up to yank the solar disk<\/div>\n<div>toward it\u2019s evening conclusion.<\/div>\n<p><br \\\/><\/p>\n<div>atop a tall and brittle snag<\/div>\n<div>the nestlings stir in their<\/div>\n<div>rough and temporary abode<\/div>\n<div>for this evenings repast.<\/div>\n<p><br \\\/><\/p>\n<div>finally,<\/div>\n<div>with a cry,<\/div>\n<div>casting themselves out and over<\/div>\n<div>the steep precipice,<\/div>\n<p><br \\\/><\/p>\n<div>the Bald Eagles of Bubble Duff<\/div>\n<div>begin their evening exercise.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>manipulating gravity and wind<\/div>\n<div>(as the tools they are)<\/div>\n<div>propel, accel, decel,<\/div>\n<div>stirring awe and envy<\/div>\n<div>in their terrestrial-bound observers.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>circling skyward,<\/div>\n<div>plummeting seaward,<\/div>\n<div>and finally,<\/div>\n<div>returning westward.<\/div>\n<p><br \\\/><\/p>\n<div>burdened with<\/div>\n<div>some unfortunate maritime prey<\/div>\n<div>they soothe the nestling<\/div>\n<div>for one more day.<\/div>\n<p><br \\\/><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I wrote the above back in September of 2007 with no pretense as a poet.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Bubble Duff&#8221; is a play on the words &#8220;Double Bluff&#8221;,\u00a0 a park on Whidbey Island.<\/p>\n<div id=\"ShortCode_Div\">[osm_map_v3 map_center=&#8221;47.964,-122.537&#8243; zoom=&#8221;12&#8243; width=&#8221;100%&#8221; height=&#8221;450&#8243; control=&#8221;fullscreen,scaleline&#8221;]<\/div>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>the jagged claws of the OooLYMPic mountains reach up to yank the solar disk toward it\u2019s evening conclusion. atop a tall and brittle snag the nestlings stir in their rough and temporary abode for this evenings&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[39],"tags":[51,50,30],"class_list":["post-1700","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fiction","tag-fiction","tag-poetry","tag-writing"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p32pSF-rq","jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jjkpryde.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1700","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jjkpryde.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jjkpryde.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jjkpryde.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jjkpryde.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1700"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.jjkpryde.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1700\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1705,"href":"https:\/\/www.jjkpryde.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1700\/revisions\/1705"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jjkpryde.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jjkpryde.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jjkpryde.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}