{"id":493,"date":"2024-05-20T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-05-20T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.sccs.swarthmore.edu\/smallcraftwarnings\/?p=493"},"modified":"2026-07-29T00:56:31","modified_gmt":"2026-07-29T00:56:31","slug":"snow-days-other-functionally-extinct-animals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.sccs.swarthmore.edu\/smallcraftwarnings\/2024\/05\/20\/snow-days-other-functionally-extinct-animals\/","title":{"rendered":"Snow Days &amp; Other Functionally Extinct Animals"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse\">Another snowless winter, another sleepless night.<br>            The passenger pigeon on my chest bleats a soft lullaby <br>about the loneliness of survival.<br>            It takes wing to my softly glowing ceiling, <br>the radiant face of the moon,<br>            the blanket of snow over the yard where my father <br>pulled my brother and I in a sled for buoyant hours<br>            long before I learned to be grateful for the memory<br>of melted ice clinging to our eyelashes so the floodlights<br>            blurred like stars, dreamlike in the darkness beside my mother<br>watching in the window with a cooling cup of tea.<br>            And yes, the sled shattered into pieces now buried <br>in a landfill more solid than snow. And yes, it\u2019s been years<br>            since I felt the sting of air rushing by like wingbeats,<br>but when light spills forth beyond the curtains once more,<br>            I\u2019ll close my eyes to become everything the light touches,<br>become the light itself, drifting into the still-breathing morning.<br><\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another snowless winter, another sleepless night. The passenger pigeon on my chest bleats a soft lullaby about the loneliness of survival. It takes wing to my softly glowing ceiling, the radiant face of the moon, the blanket of snow over the yard where my father pulled my brother and I in a sled for buoyant [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":94,"featured_media":495,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.sccs.swarthmore.edu\/smallcraftwarnings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.sccs.swarthmore.edu\/smallcraftwarnings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.sccs.swarthmore.edu\/smallcraftwarnings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.sccs.swarthmore.edu\/smallcraftwarnings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/94"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.sccs.swarthmore.edu\/smallcraftwarnings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=493"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sites.sccs.swarthmore.edu\/smallcraftwarnings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":505,"href":"https:\/\/sites.sccs.swarthmore.edu\/smallcraftwarnings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493\/revisions\/505"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.sccs.swarthmore.edu\/smallcraftwarnings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.sccs.swarthmore.edu\/smallcraftwarnings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.sccs.swarthmore.edu\/smallcraftwarnings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.sccs.swarthmore.edu\/smallcraftwarnings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}