{"id":1817,"date":"2014-12-23T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-12-23T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sidekickbooks.com\/booklab\/2014\/12\/a-sidekick-advent-calendar-day-23.html\/"},"modified":"2014-12-23T09:00:00","modified_gmt":"2014-12-23T09:00:00","slug":"a-sidekick-advent-calendar-day-23","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sidekickbooks.com\/booklab\/2014\/12\/a-sidekick-advent-calendar-day-23.html\/","title":{"rendered":"A Sidekick Advent Calendar: Day 23"},"content":{"rendered":"We kicked off the advent calendar with a <i>Birdbook<\/i> sample from the future. For our penultimate entry, then, a <i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.drfulminare.com\/birdbook.php\" target=\"_blank\">Birdbook<\/a><\/i> sample from the past, and our very first volume. Tis the most Christmassy of birds, the fat old robin!<br \/><br \/>Poem by the ever-compelling&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BettySettle\" target=\"_blank\"><b>Bethany Settle<\/b><\/a> and artwork by the very talented <b>Katherine Leedale<\/b>.<br \/><br \/><div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-Z5DF9a9gpek\/VJinQ9XREDI\/AAAAAAAAAyc\/XMP9chf--rw\/s1600\/Robinkathlee.JPG\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-Z5DF9a9gpek\/VJinQ9XREDI\/AAAAAAAAAyc\/XMP9chf--rw\/s1600\/Robinkathlee.JPG\" height=\"640\" width=\"426\" \/><\/a><\/div><br \/><br \/><div style=\"margin-left: 200px;\"><h3>Robin<\/h3><br \/>The dark day I first<br \/>Grasped intuition<br \/>Robin<br \/>You were my reward<br \/>Lesson:<br \/>That which is needed<br \/>May be singing<br \/>To you<br \/>From several miles away<br \/>I learnt backwards,<br \/>Years later,<br \/>Now<br \/><br \/>Dipdipping<br \/>Chitchitchitting<br \/>You sung me<br \/>What is<br \/>Beneath skin, feathers<br \/>Atoms<br \/>So light &#8211; reboned, rescaled<br \/>I watched me from you<br \/>How hungry we both were<br \/><br \/>Now, years later,<br \/>We sing in all directions<br \/>We are the same,<br \/>Robin. Light,<br \/>Matter has dressed you in red,<br \/>But I can put it on<br \/>(And most days, do)<br \/><div><br \/><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"We kicked off the advent calendar with a Birdbook sample from the future. For our penultimate entry, then, a Birdbook sample from the past, and our very first volume. Tis the most Christmassy of birds, the fat old robin!Poem by the ever-compelling&nbsp;Bethany Settle and artwork by the very talented Katherine Leedale.RobinThe dark day I firstGrasped &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sidekickbooks.com\/booklab\/2014\/12\/a-sidekick-advent-calendar-day-23.html\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;A Sidekick Advent Calendar: Day 23&#8221;<\/span><\/a>","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[428,521,403],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-advent-calendar","category-beth-settle","category-birdbook"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sidekickbooks.com\/booklab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1817","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sidekickbooks.com\/booklab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sidekickbooks.com\/booklab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sidekickbooks.com\/booklab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sidekickbooks.com\/booklab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1817"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sidekickbooks.com\/booklab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1817\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sidekickbooks.com\/booklab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sidekickbooks.com\/booklab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sidekickbooks.com\/booklab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}