{"id":248,"date":"2015-08-12T17:57:25","date_gmt":"2015-08-12T17:57:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jick.net\/wordpress\/?p=248"},"modified":"2015-08-12T17:57:25","modified_gmt":"2015-08-12T17:57:25","slug":"coho","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jick.ca\/?p=248","title":{"rendered":"Coho"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The call caught them<br \/>\nall across the Aleutians.<\/p>\n<p>In the middle of scooping krill<br \/>\nthey heard the sound of a wordless shiver<br \/>\ntickling skein and milt.<\/p>\n<p>They eased to South.<\/p>\n<p>They ate hard across the huge current<br \/>\nslashing herring ritualistically<br \/>\nin a dance of secret steps.<\/p>\n<p>As each found far out<br \/>\na tiny scent of home<br \/>\nthe chemistry began in earnest<br \/>\nsubtle at first<br \/>\ntasting of sweet death.<\/p>\n<p>Then it was urgent, urgent<br \/>\neating their flesh with the need to leap<br \/>\nto find the source, to change<br \/>\nutterly<br \/>\ninto the mystery.<\/p>\n<p>Spending what they had been<br \/>\nthey came to the place<br \/>\nready to slough their shredded husks<br \/>\nto feed the nursery.<\/p>\n<p>Finally<br \/>\nshuddering off dying confinements<br \/>\nthey came free together<br \/>\nthin smoke on the embers<br \/>\nround and newly sparked.<\/p>\n<p>Huddled<br \/>\nin the spaces between the stones<br \/>\nthey dream of the next return.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><i>01 February 1976, revised 14 July 1976<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The call caught them all across the Aleutians. In the middle of scooping krill they heard the sound of a wordless shiver tickling skein and milt. They eased to South. They ate hard across the huge current slashing herring ritualistically in a dance of secret steps. As each found far<a href=\"https:\/\/jick.ca\/?p=248\" class=\"read-more\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1974-1979","category-poetry"],"gutentor_comment":0,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jick.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jick.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jick.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jick.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jick.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=248"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jick.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":249,"href":"https:\/\/jick.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248\/revisions\/249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jick.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jick.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jick.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}