{"id":22946,"date":"2013-11-01T13:24:19","date_gmt":"2013-11-01T19:24:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=22946"},"modified":"2013-11-01T13:24:19","modified_gmt":"2013-11-01T19:24:19","slug":"22946","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=22946","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div>A Birthday Card<\/div>\n<div>\n<p><b>by:<\/b>\u00a0Ted Kooser<br \/>\n<b>from:<\/b>\u00a0One World at a Time<br \/>\nIn her eighties now, and weak and ill<br \/>\nwith emphysema, my aunt sends me<br \/>\na birthday card\u2014a tossing ocean<br \/>\nwith clipper ship\u2014and wishes me<br \/>\nwell at forty-four. She\u2019s included<br \/>\na note\u2014hard-bitten in ball-point,<br \/>\nwith a pen that sometimes skips whole words<br \/>\nbut never turns back\u2014to tell me<br \/>\nher end of the news: how the steroids<br \/>\nhave softened her spine, and now how<br \/>\nevery x-ray shows more shattered bone.<br \/>\nHer hasty words skip in and out,<br \/>\ntheir little grooves washed clean of ink,<br \/>\nthe message rising and falling<br \/>\nlike short-wave radio, sending<br \/>\nthis hurried SOS, with love.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Birthday Card by:\u00a0Ted Kooser from:\u00a0One World at a Time In her eighties now, and weak and ill with emphysema, my aunt sends me a birthday card\u2014a tossing ocean with clipper ship\u2014and wishes me well at forty-four. She\u2019s included a note\u2014hard-bitten in ball-point, with a pen that sometimes skips whole words but never turns back\u2014to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=22946\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\"><\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"aside","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22946","post","type-post","status-publish","format-aside","hentry","category-general","post_format-post-format-aside"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22946","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22946"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22946\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22947,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22946\/revisions\/22947"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}