{"id":8768,"date":"2020-06-10T23:25:45","date_gmt":"2020-06-10T22:25:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cassandravoices.com\/?p=8768"},"modified":"2020-06-10T23:25:45","modified_gmt":"2020-06-10T22:25:45","slug":"side-effect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/casswp.eutonom.eu\/index.php\/2020\/06\/10\/side-effect\/","title":{"rendered":"SIDE EFFECT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SIDE EFFECT<\/p>\n<p>So few cars on our Manhattan street<br \/>\nPigeons leaving nests that swirl between<br \/>\nHighrise ledges, fearless land to eat<br \/>\nAny mid-street grain or scrap they glean.<\/p>\n<p>Told to stay at home most acquiesce.<br \/>\nNow we learn how unbeknownst we spare<br \/>\nOur New York as we\u2019re emitting less<br \/>\nLong-lived greenhouse gases in the air.<\/p>\n<p>Same in Paris, London, Madrid, Rome.<br \/>\nIf our frenzied whirl restarts, when pressed<br \/>\nTo create more jobs and we leave home,<br \/>\nWill we foul then worse our global nest?<\/p>\n<p>Covid fear amends our habitat \u2013<br \/>\nNature\u2019s own backhanded caveat.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/cassandravoices.com\/history\/an-irish-poet-attains-greatness\/\">Micheal O\u2019Siadhail&#8217;s <\/a><\/span><em><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">The Five Quintets<\/span> was published in 2018, he now lives in New York.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Image:<\/strong> Constantino Idini<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SIDE EFFECT So few cars on our Manhattan street Pigeons leaving nests that swirl between Highrise ledges, fearless land to eat Any mid-street grain or scrap they glean. Told to stay at home most acquiesce. Now we learn how unbeknownst we spare Our New York as we\u2019re emitting less Long-lived greenhouse gases in the air. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":100,"featured_media":8805,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[6150,6151,6152,6153],"class_list":["post-8768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-poetry","tag-micheal-osiadhail-poetry","tag-micheal-osiadhail-poetry-covid-19","tag-micheal-osiadhail-poetry-new-york","tag-micheal-osiadhail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/casswp.eutonom.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8768","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/casswp.eutonom.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/casswp.eutonom.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/casswp.eutonom.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/100"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/casswp.eutonom.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8768"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/casswp.eutonom.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8768\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/casswp.eutonom.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/casswp.eutonom.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/casswp.eutonom.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/casswp.eutonom.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}