{"id":518,"date":"2006-06-15T06:14:45","date_gmt":"2006-06-15T10:14:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/?p=518"},"modified":"2006-08-10T14:16:28","modified_gmt":"2006-08-10T18:16:28","slug":"a-scream","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/?p=518","title":{"rendered":"A scream&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A scream.<\/p>\n<p>(Nothing.)<\/p>\n<p>A keening cry; a gull screams quite close;<\/p>\n<p>Something hits the skylight; I&#8217;m awake.<\/p>\n<p>I open my eyes a little:<\/p>\n<p>The sun has barely hit the top of the building next door;<\/p>\n<p>Screaming: Kyuk-kyuk-kyuk-kyah-kyah!&#8230; Keer-ee-uck!&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Ki-ki-ki!&#8230; Keer-keer-kee-kee-keer!&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Hyah, kyah, kyah-kyah!&#8230; <\/p>\n<p>Sounds of a scuffle on the roof: I&#8217;m awake.<\/p>\n<p>I close the skylight, and pull the pillow over my head;<\/p>\n<p>And sleep.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A scream. (Nothing.) A keening cry; a gull screams quite close; Something hits the skylight; I&#8217;m awake. I open my eyes a little: The sun has barely hit the top of the building next door; Screaming: Kyuk-kyuk-kyuk-kyah-kyah!&#8230; Keer-ee-uck!&#8230; Ki-ki-ki!&#8230; Keer-keer-kee-kee-keer!&#8230; Hyah, kyah, kyah-kyah!&#8230; Sounds of a scuffle on the roof: I&#8217;m awake. I close the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-518","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-summer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=518"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}