{"id":182,"date":"2018-06-29T01:20:06","date_gmt":"2018-06-29T01:20:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/?p=182"},"modified":"2018-06-29T23:26:00","modified_gmt":"2018-06-29T23:26:00","slug":"hooded-eagle-by-j-h-martin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/2018\/06\/29\/hooded-eagle-by-j-h-martin\/","title":{"rendered":"Hooded Eagle by J H Martin"},"content":{"rendered":"<h6 style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>J H Martin is from London, England but has no fixed abode. His writing has appeared in a number of places in Asia, Europe and the Americas.\u00a0<\/em><\/h6>\n<h6 style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>Website:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/acoatforamonkey.wordpress.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?hl=en&amp;q=https:\/\/acoatforamonkey.wordpress.com\/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1530400950413000&amp;usg=AFQjCNFvhhmA4pbQHpG3mskM4OKmxUw6-g\">A Coat for a Monkey<\/a>\u00a0 <\/em><\/h6>\n<h6 style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>Instagram:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/acoatforamonkey\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?hl=en&amp;q=https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/acoatforamonkey\/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1530400950413000&amp;usg=AFQjCNGcYQFxnVk9b1SRzrmOpw5it66jzQ\">@acoatforamonkey<\/a><\/em><\/h6>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>HOODED EAGLE<\/p>\n<p>I put on my hat<br \/>\nAnd take the last shot<br \/>\nThen pull up my hood<br \/>\nAnd drain the last glass<\/p>\n<p>After five sleepless nights<br \/>\nI know I need more<\/p>\n<p>More than these rats<br \/>\nI pass on the landing<br \/>\nMore than these mice<br \/>\nWho scurry back to their holes<\/p>\n<p>This endless hunger<br \/>\nThat not even I can satisfy<\/p>\n<p>A circling bird of prey<\/p>\n<p>I will take any opening<br \/>\nThat these pinned eyes fix upon<br \/>\nTo feast my way out of this cage<br \/>\nAnd unfurl these damp walls<br \/>\nAnd head back up to that China white sky<br \/>\nWhere reality fades<\/p>\n<p>With all of its stained corridors<br \/>\nOf twisted emotion<br \/>\nAll its grey blocks of clouded reason<br \/>\nAnd all its memory lined streets<br \/>\nLittered with nothing but abused promises<\/p>\n<p>A hooded eagle<\/p>\n<p>All I need and all I can see<br \/>\nIs in this void<br \/>\nThat opens now in front of me<\/p>\n<p>A space that will<br \/>\nNever ask questions<br \/>\nAs I pass through its door<\/p>\n<p>A place I can feed<br \/>\nUntil it all disappears<\/p>\n<p>This land of the dead<\/p>\n<p>Sweet carrion<br \/>\nMore<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>J H Martin is from London, England but has no fixed abode. His writing has appeared in a number of places in Asia, Europe and the Americas.\u00a0 Website:\u00a0A Coat for a Monkey\u00a0 Instagram:\u00a0@acoatforamonkey &nbsp; HOODED EAGLE I put on my hat And take the last shot Then pull up my hood And drain the last &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/2018\/06\/29\/hooded-eagle-by-j-h-martin\/\" class=\"excerpt-link\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"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":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pa867U-2W","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":184,"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182\/revisions\/184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}