{"id":86,"date":"2012-03-04T14:07:42","date_gmt":"2012-03-04T13:07:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simonkearns.com\/?p=86"},"modified":"2012-03-04T14:13:30","modified_gmt":"2012-03-04T13:13:30","slug":"already-there","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/simonkearns.com\/?p=86","title":{"rendered":"Already there"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The children gathered around it, thick with inquisitiveness and wary attraction. It lay on its back, rocking slowly from one side to the other, a mockingly mechanical motion, one leg in the air, clawing at the void that was already there, yet approaching at the same time. They watched, those children, eyes showing wonderment &#8211; terrified and excited and repulsed all at the same time. The chick, a swallow I think, one of those fallen on first flight, <em>was<\/em> them. Simply them: young, helpless, at mercy. A mother shooed them. I caught a glimpse of it. Best not look. But the children would. They looked because they had to know.<\/p>\n<p>But what do I know?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The children gathered around it, thick with inquisitiveness and wary attraction. It lay on its back, rocking slowly from one side to the other, a mockingly mechanical motion, one leg<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/simonkearns.com\/?p=86\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Already there<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-86","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-flash-fiction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonkearns.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonkearns.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonkearns.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonkearns.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonkearns.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=86"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/simonkearns.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":103,"href":"https:\/\/simonkearns.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86\/revisions\/103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonkearns.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=86"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonkearns.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=86"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonkearns.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=86"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}