{"id":1735,"date":"2021-07-17T14:14:12","date_gmt":"2021-07-17T18:14:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/welter\/?page_id=1735"},"modified":"2021-12-01T16:09:54","modified_gmt":"2021-12-01T20:09:54","slug":"cloud-amoeba","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/welter\/poetry-archive\/cloud-amoeba\/","title":{"rendered":"Cloud Amoeba"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1738\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/welter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1188\/2021\/07\/pexels-photo-556669-251x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"309\" height=\"370\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/welter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1188\/2021\/07\/pexels-photo-556669-251x300.jpeg 251w, https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/welter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1188\/2021\/07\/pexels-photo-556669-857x1024.jpeg 857w, https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/welter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1188\/2021\/07\/pexels-photo-556669-768x917.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/welter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1188\/2021\/07\/pexels-photo-556669.jpeg 1256w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 309px) 100vw, 309px\" \/><\/div>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<div><strong>Cloud Amoeba<\/strong><\/div>\n<div>Andrew Jones<\/div>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<div>Remember when the clouds were birds?<\/div>\n<div>And they would stretch on one side,<\/div>\n<div>ebb to the other,<\/div>\n<div>extend out like the<\/div>\n<div>arm of an amoeba<\/div>\n<div>towards what?<\/div>\n<div>&#8211; I cannot say,<\/div>\n<div>What else would they engulf?<\/div>\n<div>They already have the sky,<\/div>\n<div>but they were always reaching,<\/div>\n<div>always towards something.<\/div>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><br \/>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph --><br \/>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<div><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-1869 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/welter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1188\/2021\/07\/thumbnail_IMG_3058-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/strong><\/div>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><br \/>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<div><strong>Andrew Jones<\/strong> is a writer in western Pennsylvania. He can be seen getting lost in numerous forests with his dog just as the sun sets.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cloud Amoeba Andrew Jones Remember when the clouds were birds? And they would stretch on one side, ebb to the other, extend out like the arm of an amoeba towards <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/welter\/poetry-archive\/cloud-amoeba\/\">Continue Reading &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4562,"featured_media":0,"parent":1261,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/welter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1735"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/welter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/welter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/welter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4562"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/welter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1735"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/welter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1735\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1872,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/welter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1735\/revisions\/1872"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/welter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/welter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}