{"id":774,"date":"2023-09-24T12:13:25","date_gmt":"2023-09-24T19:13:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jick.ca\/?p=774"},"modified":"2025-11-09T09:49:27","modified_gmt":"2025-11-09T17:49:27","slug":"caviar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jick.ca\/?p=774","title":{"rendered":"Oncorhynchus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Swim, my silver beauty, swim!<br \/>\nFollow me to river\u2019s source.<br \/>\nDo not make your bed with <em>him<\/em>,<br \/>\nthough he move gravel with more force.<\/p>\n<p>Lay your eggs upon the sand<br \/>\nand guard their orange splendor there<br \/>\nwhile I employ my milty gland,<br \/>\nshuddering sideways in our lair.<\/p>\n<p>And when the procreation\u2019s done,<br \/>\nwhen you and I are tired and tattered,<br \/>\nour flesh will nourish everyone;<br \/>\nour lives will then have truly mattered.<\/p>\n<p>For now, we dream of alevins, fry<br \/>\nand darting schools of speckled smolts<br \/>\nwho someday will return to die<br \/>\nhere too like loving thunderbolts.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>(<em>24 September 2023<\/em>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Swim, my silver beauty, swim! Follow me to river\u2019s source. Do not make your bed with him, though he move gravel with more force. Lay your eggs upon the sand and guard their orange splendor there while I employ my milty gland, shuddering sideways in our lair. And when the<a href=\"https:\/\/jick.ca\/?p=774\" 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":[25,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2020-and-after","category-poetry"],"gutentor_comment":1,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jick.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/774","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=774"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/jick.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/774\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":995,"href":"https:\/\/jick.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/774\/revisions\/995"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jick.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jick.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jick.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}