{"id":241,"date":"2010-12-10T09:03:23","date_gmt":"2010-12-10T16:03:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.shadowkatmandu.net\/?p=241"},"modified":"2010-12-10T09:03:23","modified_gmt":"2010-12-10T16:03:23","slug":"friday-poetry-the-birdhouse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.shadowkatmandu.net\/?p=241","title":{"rendered":"Friday Poetry &#8212; The Birdhouse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The Birdhouse<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I had a vision<br \/>\nIt started out so small<br \/>\nI would build a birdhouse<br \/>\nThat was it, that was all<\/p>\n<p>But then I thought<br \/>\nWhat if this birdhouse had<br \/>\nThree levels and two wings<br \/>\nAnd then I said, &#8220;Egad!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It needs squirrel defense<br \/>\nBut squirrels need homes, too<br \/>\nSo I added nine levels<br \/>\nAnd I wasn&#8217;t quite through<\/p>\n<p>If squirrels and birds need a home<br \/>\nWell, what about the fish and the deer<br \/>\nI started more planning<br \/>\nIt was all so amazingly clear<\/p>\n<p>A home for the animals<br \/>\nIt was just not enough<br \/>\nI needed a bigger one for me<br \/>\nSo life wouldn&#8217;t be so rough<\/p>\n<p>I designed a grand house<br \/>\nWith room attached for squirrel, fish, deer, bird and bear<br \/>\nWhat a marvelous idea<br \/>\nSuch an awesome space we could happily share<\/p>\n<p>But what about my neighbors?<br \/>\nThey had animal friends as well<br \/>\nSo I started to add more rooms and more levels<br \/>\nAs I descended into designing hell<\/p>\n<p>I designed a whole city<br \/>\nThis is what my birdhouse had become<br \/>\nAnd as I looked at it<br \/>\nI wondered how could I be so dumb?<\/p>\n<p>The city wasn&#8217;t big enough<br \/>\nThere were people and animals left out<br \/>\nSo I added more wings and more levels<br \/>\nUntil there was surely no doubt<\/p>\n<p>Everything was accounted for<br \/>\nEvery plant, bird and bee<br \/>\nThis thing would stretch<br \/>\nFurther than the eye could see<\/p>\n<p>My design was finished<br \/>\nAfter a week&#8217;s work it was complete<br \/>\nSo with a smile and my wallet<br \/>\nI set off down the street<\/p>\n<p>I went to the hardware store<br \/>\nIntent on getting supplies<br \/>\nUntil I saw the pricing<br \/>\nWhich shocked my poor little eyes<\/p>\n<p>So I scaled things down a bit<br \/>\nDown to what I might afford<br \/>\nI built a little birdhouse<br \/>\nAnd a happy bird sang a happy chord.<\/p>\n<p>****<\/p>\n<p>This was just one of those verses which flowed out nice and easy.  I have a tendency to create grandiose things, so while I have never designed or built a birdhouse, I can easily imagine having such a concept get out of hand like this.<\/p>\n<p>Hope you&#8217;ve had a good week.  See you Monday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Birdhouse I had a vision It started out so small I would build a birdhouse That was it, that was all But then I thought What if this birdhouse had Three levels and two wings And then I said, &#8220;Egad!&#8221; It needs squirrel defense But squirrels need homes, too So I added nine levels [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.shadowkatmandu.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.shadowkatmandu.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.shadowkatmandu.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.shadowkatmandu.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.shadowkatmandu.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=241"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/blog.shadowkatmandu.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":242,"href":"http:\/\/blog.shadowkatmandu.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241\/revisions\/242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.shadowkatmandu.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.shadowkatmandu.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.shadowkatmandu.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}