{"id":615,"date":"2012-03-05T21:30:58","date_gmt":"2012-03-05T21:30:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/?p=615"},"modified":"2012-03-05T21:31:27","modified_gmt":"2012-03-05T21:31:27","slug":"fowl-say-by-sarah-reddick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/fowl-say-by-sarah-reddick\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Fowl Say&#8221; (by Sarah Reddick)"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-315\" title=\"ColumnHeaderSarahReddick\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/ColumnHeaderSarahReddick.jpg?resize=300%2C87\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"87\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/ColumnHeaderSarahReddick.jpg?resize=300%2C87&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/ColumnHeaderSarahReddick.jpg?w=994&amp;ssl=1 994w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>&#8220;Fowl Say&#8221;<\/strong><\/span><\/h1>\n<p>Every day when I come home<br \/>\nI am heralded by these ducks.<br \/>\nEight matted and framed prints,<br \/>\nfour on top,<br \/>\nfour below.<\/p>\n<p>Some are mid-flight,<br \/>\nwinging over marshes at dusk,<br \/>\nor wild, wind rocked waves.<br \/>\nOthers are peacefully drifting<br \/>\nin murky greens and browns,<br \/>\nburnt orange feathers fluffed out.<\/p>\n<p>They were a gift to my girlfriend<\/p>\n<p>from her family, a part of her legacy.<\/p>\n<p>They&#8217;ve been moved from home to home,<\/p>\n<p>and have been nesting here for years.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright  wp-image-616\" title=\"Dux\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/audubon-ii-waterfowl-northern-shoveler-aka-shoveller-duck-framed.jpg?resize=240%2C172\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"172\" \/>I\u2019ve tried to replace them with<br \/>\na jewel toned beauty by Klimt, and a<br \/>\nblack slashed self-portrait by Beckmann.<br \/>\nI\u2019ve suggested we retire them to the garage<br \/>\nor sell them to a duck enthusiast.<br \/>\nShe just laughs.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve managed to remove the stained glass<\/p>\n<p>depicting a giant fish joyously, foolishly<\/p>\n<p>leaping towards a baited hook,<\/p>\n<p>but the mahogany framed ducks remain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Fowl Say&#8221; Every day when I come home I am heralded by these ducks. Eight matted and framed<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":238,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[96,119],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-creative-writing","category-sarah-reddick"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/615","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/238"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=615"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/615\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}