{"id":11272,"date":"2026-02-02T08:14:35","date_gmt":"2026-02-02T16:14:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/?p=9702"},"modified":"2026-02-02T08:14:35","modified_gmt":"2026-02-02T16:14:35","slug":"two-crows-in-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/two-crows-in-love\/","title":{"rendered":"Two Crows in Love"},"content":{"rendered":"<!-- wp:themify-builder\/canvas \/-->\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Every morning two crows perch<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">on a wire above my home.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For seven months<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I have watched them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">They groom.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">They lean.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">They huddle against wind.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">They nod their heads as one.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">They survey the street as one.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">They caw together like a choir.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">They chatter sweet nothings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">They have what I don&#8217;t have.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And may never have again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So I nourish these corvids with<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">crackers, chips and bread<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">tossed on the lawn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sometimes even gristle<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">from a steak cooked for the dog.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every morning two crows perch on a wire above my home. For seven months I have watched them. They groom. They lean. They huddle against wind. They nod their heads as one. They survey the street as one. They caw together like a choir. They chatter sweet nothings. They have what I don&#8217;t have. And [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9703,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-meditations","category-poetry","has-post-title","has-post-date","has-post-category","has-post-tag","has-post-comment","has-post-author",""],"builder_content":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11272","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11272"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11272\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}