{"id":208,"date":"2024-02-19T11:22:33","date_gmt":"2024-02-19T11:22:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/pk\/ourpoemsbhs\/?page_id=208"},"modified":"2024-02-21T16:30:16","modified_gmt":"2024-02-21T16:30:16","slug":"grasshoppers-and-kittens","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/pk\/ourpoemsbhs\/grasshoppers-and-kittens\/","title":{"rendered":"Grasshoppers and Kittens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>These poems are written after\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.best-poems.net\/mary_oliver\/the_summer_day.html\">Mary Oliver\u2019s, A Summer\u2019s Day.<\/a><br \/>\nIn her poem Oliver asks big questions of the world and all the wild souls that inhabit it. She describes a Grasshopper as if in slow motion.<\/p>\n<p>We have chosen an animal we know well and tried to do the same, asking big questions and describing small details.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KateClanchy1\/status\/1462457736680116227\">Jemima, aged 12, has also done this with her poem, Kitten<\/a>. You can hear influences of Mary Oliver and Jemima in our work below. Thank you to both poets.<\/p>\n<ul class=\"display-posts-listing\"><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/pk\/ourpoemsbhs\/grasshoppers-and-kittens\/strange-cat\/\">Strange Cat<\/a> <span class=\"author\">by&nbsp;Zak<\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/pk\/ourpoemsbhs\/grasshoppers-and-kittens\/dog-who-sleeps-too-much\/\">Dog Who Sleeps Too Much<\/a> <span class=\"author\">by&nbsp;Ollie<\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/pk\/ourpoemsbhs\/grasshoppers-and-kittens\/the-creature-with-the-iron-like-hide\/\">The Creature with the Iron-Like Hide<\/a> <span class=\"author\">by&nbsp;Brandon<\/span><\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These poems are written after\u00a0Mary Oliver\u2019s, A Summer\u2019s Day. In her poem Oliver asks big questions of the world and all the wild souls that inhabit it. She describes a Grasshopper as if in slow motion. We have chosen an animal we know well and tried to do the same, asking big questions and describing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9922,"featured_media":210,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-208","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/pk\/ourpoemsbhs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/pk\/ourpoemsbhs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/pk\/ourpoemsbhs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/pk\/ourpoemsbhs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9922"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/pk\/ourpoemsbhs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=208"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/pk\/ourpoemsbhs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/208\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":246,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/pk\/ourpoemsbhs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/208\/revisions\/246"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/pk\/ourpoemsbhs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/pk\/ourpoemsbhs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}