{"id":988,"date":"2020-11-29T15:12:01","date_gmt":"2020-11-29T15:12:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hughesgallery.net\/barbarahelveyhughes\/?p=988"},"modified":"2020-12-03T21:36:10","modified_gmt":"2020-12-03T21:36:10","slug":"the-fox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hughesgallery.net\/barbarahelveyhughes\/2020\/11\/29\/the-fox\/","title":{"rendered":"The Fox"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"232\" height=\"162\" src=\"https:\/\/hughesgallery.net\/barbarahelveyhughes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/11-29-2020-fox-in-snow-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-991\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"https:\/\/hughesgallery.net\/barbarahelveyhughes\/audio\/The%20Fox.m4a?_t=1606662584\"><\/audio><\/figure>\n\n\n<p class=\"fonts-plugin-block\" style=\"font-weight: normal;font-size: 15px;line-height: 1.3\"><strong><em>The Fox<\/em><\/strong><br>\u00a0<br>A brown fox hopped through the feather dense snow<br>in the frigid night, he scampered away.<br>Under a leaden sky pierced by the moon<br>that frisky brown fox frolicked out to play.<br>\u00a0<br>The fox romped out on a chilly white night<br>on a chilly white night, he roamed and ranged.<br>The fox roamed out through the chilly bright night<br>beneath the magic of the moon, he changed.<br>\u00a0<br>He shed his coat in the glitter of night<br>beneath the spell of the full frozen moon.<br>His sloughed coat changed to ephemeral white<br>as he frisked into dusk of the blue afternoon.<br>\u00a0<br>He crouched from the overhead shadow wings<br>and burrowed fast into chilly white snow.<br>Where the eagle swoops and the bluebird sings<br>the Fox shared roots with the weeping willow.<br>\u00a0<br>A white-white fox feathered deep into snow<br>as he regarded the bluing bright moon<br>he closed his eyes, with his head tilted up,<br>knowing indigo night would end too soon.<br>\u00a0<br>The smile on his face as he faced that sky<br>while he winked at the moon and barked goodbye<br>while the sparkling snow fell fast from the sky<br>was like magic ~ and I uttered a sigh.<br>\u00a0<br>Now the white fox hops through feather deep snow<br>in the warmth of sun, he steals clean away.<br>Under a blue sky mottled with fat clouds<br>a frisky white fox bounces out to play.<br><br><br>\u00a0<br>by Barbara Helvey Hughes, 2020<br>\u00a0<br><br><br>\u00a0<br>\u00a0<br>\u00a0<br>\u00a0<br>\u00a0<br>\u00a0<br>\u00a0<br>\u00a0<br>\u00a0<br>\u00a0<br>\u00a0<br>\u00a0<br>\u00a0<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":995,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hughesgallery.net\/barbarahelveyhughes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/988","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hughesgallery.net\/barbarahelveyhughes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hughesgallery.net\/barbarahelveyhughes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hughesgallery.net\/barbarahelveyhughes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hughesgallery.net\/barbarahelveyhughes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=988"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/hughesgallery.net\/barbarahelveyhughes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/988\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":996,"href":"https:\/\/hughesgallery.net\/barbarahelveyhughes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/988\/revisions\/996"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hughesgallery.net\/barbarahelveyhughes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/995"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hughesgallery.net\/barbarahelveyhughes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hughesgallery.net\/barbarahelveyhughes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hughesgallery.net\/barbarahelveyhughes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}