{"id":103,"date":"2014-07-18T21:39:56","date_gmt":"2014-07-18T21:39:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nancileewoody.com\/?page_id=103"},"modified":"2020-08-10T16:11:05","modified_gmt":"2020-08-10T16:11:05","slug":"103-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/nancileewoody.com\/?page_id=103","title":{"rendered":"Hey, Mr. Woodpecker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hey, Mr. Woodpecker, backyard king<br \/>\nsmart red head, dat dat dat-ing<br \/>\nat the metal railing<br \/>\nor the dead oak branches<br \/>\nwhere you endlessly store acorns in holes<br \/>\nnever ceasing your dat dat dat-ing<br \/>\nand If one doesn\u2019t fit just right<br \/>\ninto the hole you\u2019ve stuck it in<br \/>\nyou\u2019ll grab it, twist it around, poke it in tight<br \/>\nand if you\u2019re still not satisfied, you\u2019ll dat-dat a new hole<br \/>\nmove that misfitting acorn before you check on another.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a miracle that you remember<br \/>\ncome winter<br \/>\njust where those thousands of acorns are stashed<\/p>\n<p>I observe you daily<br \/>\nas you dive-bomb squirrels who<br \/>\ntrespass in your tree.<br \/>\nI know your habits.<br \/>\nYou hold no surprises for me.<\/p>\n<p>I watch you watch the hummingbirds<br \/>\nat their feeder attached to my window<br \/>\ntended to daily by me<br \/>\nand you must think<br \/>\nhow easy life could be<br \/>\nif you didn\u2019t have to drill those thousands of holes<br \/>\nin hard dead wood<br \/>\nso you launch your oversized body<br \/>\nto perch on the window ledge near<br \/>\nthe hummers\u2019 feeder,<br \/>\nyou poke your big, hole-drilling beak into the tiny openings<br \/>\nmade for an entirely different kind of bill<br \/>\nand you<br \/>\nI thought of no surprises<br \/>\nsit there, sipping the sugary sweet nectar<br \/>\nfiguring life will be easier from now on.<\/p>\n<p><em>By nanci lee woody<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hey, Mr. Woodpecker, backyard king smart red head, dat dat dat-ing at the metal railing or the dead oak branches where you endlessly store acorns in holes never ceasing your dat dat dat-ing and If one doesn\u2019t fit just right into the hole you\u2019ve stuck it in you\u2019ll grab it, twist it around, poke it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":11,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-103","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nancileewoody.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nancileewoody.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nancileewoody.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nancileewoody.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nancileewoody.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=103"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/nancileewoody.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/103\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":704,"href":"https:\/\/nancileewoody.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/103\/revisions\/704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nancileewoody.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}