{"id":162,"date":"2019-03-24T18:26:09","date_gmt":"2019-03-24T18:26:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/foowr.org.uk\/notesfrombambi\/?p=162"},"modified":"2019-03-24T18:26:09","modified_gmt":"2019-03-24T18:26:09","slug":"haiku-for-a-tadpole","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/foowr.org.uk\/notesfrombambi\/2019\/03\/24\/haiku-for-a-tadpole\/","title":{"rendered":"Haiku for a tadpole"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On today&#8217;s practice walk for the LEJOG next month, I passed the puddles we saw earlier in the week. In the brown cloudy water I saw three tiny tadpoles.<\/p>\n<p><i>Like a small comma<br \/>\nOn a smugged page, you wiggle:<br \/>\nInvisible script.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/foowr.org.uk\/notesfrombambi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/dsc_3507-497465257.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/foowr.org.uk\/notesfrombambi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/dsc_3507-497465257.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-160 alignnone size-full\" width=\"3920\" height=\"2204\" srcset=\"https:\/\/foowr.org.uk\/notesfrombambi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/dsc_3507-497465257.jpg 3920w, https:\/\/foowr.org.uk\/notesfrombambi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/dsc_3507-497465257-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/foowr.org.uk\/notesfrombambi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/dsc_3507-497465257-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/foowr.org.uk\/notesfrombambi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/dsc_3507-497465257-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/foowr.org.uk\/notesfrombambi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/dsc_3507-497465257-1200x675.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/a>The cowslips are coming up and will likely flower towards the end of the month. Most of the local fields are still empty. I only saw one lamb on my walk. Under the beech trees the green shoots of bluebells are beginning to appear with early May their likely flowering time.<br \/>\nThis prayer is based on words from the Native American tradition:<br \/>\nGreat Spirit,  who made the darkness for rest,<br \/>\nSurround us this night<br \/>\nSo that our words, our thoughts, our breath,<br \/>\nMay rest in you.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/foowr.org.uk\/notesfrombambi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/dsc_3346173195850.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/foowr.org.uk\/notesfrombambi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/dsc_3346173195850.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-161 alignnone size-full\" width=\"3920\" height=\"2204\" srcset=\"https:\/\/foowr.org.uk\/notesfrombambi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/dsc_3346173195850.jpg 3920w, https:\/\/foowr.org.uk\/notesfrombambi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/dsc_3346173195850-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/foowr.org.uk\/notesfrombambi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/dsc_3346173195850-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/foowr.org.uk\/notesfrombambi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/dsc_3346173195850-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/foowr.org.uk\/notesfrombambi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/dsc_3346173195850-1200x675.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>JAL 24.03.2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On today&#8217;s practice walk for the LEJOG next month, I passed the puddles we saw earlier in the week. In the brown cloudy water I saw three tiny tadpoles. Like a small comma On a smugged page, you wiggle: Invisible script. The cowslips are coming up and will likely flower towards the end of the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/foowr.org.uk\/notesfrombambi\/2019\/03\/24\/haiku-for-a-tadpole\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Haiku for a tadpole&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/foowr.org.uk\/notesfrombambi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/foowr.org.uk\/notesfrombambi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/foowr.org.uk\/notesfrombambi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foowr.org.uk\/notesfrombambi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foowr.org.uk\/notesfrombambi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=162"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/foowr.org.uk\/notesfrombambi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":163,"href":"https:\/\/foowr.org.uk\/notesfrombambi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162\/revisions\/163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/foowr.org.uk\/notesfrombambi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foowr.org.uk\/notesfrombambi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foowr.org.uk\/notesfrombambi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}