{"id":1481,"date":"2019-04-16T02:02:30","date_gmt":"2019-04-16T02:02:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ds.guilford.edu\/classes\/english\/228-2019s\/?p=1481"},"modified":"2019-04-16T02:02:30","modified_gmt":"2019-04-16T02:02:30","slug":"hawk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ds.guilford.edu\/classes\/english\/228-2019s\/uncategorized\/hawk\/","title":{"rendered":"Hawk"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As I am walking to enter the woods a slight breeze ruffles the few leaves left on the trees.\u00a0\u00a0I look up and make eye contact with piercing yellow eyes.\u00a0\u00a0They continue to stare into my dark brown ones.\u00a0\u00a0It\u2019s a coopers hawk.\u00a0\u00a0The curve of its beak comes to a sharp point at the tip.\u00a0\u00a0I look down hoping that it doesn\u2019t do anything or come any closer.\u00a0\u00a0When I glance back up there it is, still looking straight at me. All of a sudden it opens its large wings and shows the pretty brown and white speckled feathers on its back.\u00a0\u00a0I jump back.\u00a0\u00a0Once I realize it was just stretching and wasn\u2019t going to hurt me, I take a deep breath and slowly let it out.\u00a0\u00a0Focusing on the rise and fall of my breath, I take a step back and keep backing up.\u00a0\u00a0I wish I had the confidence of being able to stand so secure to stare down a possible threat.\u00a0\u00a0I wipe the sweat from my brow and continue on.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"http:\/\/ds.guilford.edu\/classes\/english\/228-2019s\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/IMG_4090-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1484\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ds.guilford.edu\/classes\/english\/228-2019s\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/IMG_4090-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/ds.guilford.edu\/classes\/english\/228-2019s\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/IMG_4090-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ds.guilford.edu\/classes\/english\/228-2019s\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/IMG_4090-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/ds.guilford.edu\/classes\/english\/228-2019s\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/IMG_4090-1200x900.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><figcaption><br><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I have never been so close to such a large hawk. I can see its beautiful feathers that cover its body. It sits perched on a soccer goal looking down at everyone that runs past it. At first, I didn&#8217;t know that it was a coopers hawk. I just thought that it was simply a hawk. I snapped a picture and kept walking to get to the woods. When I got home I looked it up. Looking at more images on the internet, I was able to see its beauty up close. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I wonder what life is like for the hawk. How does it <g class=\"gr_ gr_79 gr-alert gr_gramm gr_hide gr_disable_anim_appear Grammar\" id=\"79\" data-gr-id=\"79\">feels<\/g> to live so close to humans? I wonder if it has a family across the sidewalk in the woods? I wonder if it is scared of me as much as I am of it. I don&#8217;t think it is considering how strong it stands <g class=\"gr_ gr_300 gr-alert gr_gramm gr_hide gr_disable_anim_appear Grammar\" id=\"300\" data-gr-id=\"300\">peering<\/g> down at me. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I am walking to enter the woods a slight breeze ruffles the few leaves left on the trees.\u00a0\u00a0I look up and make eye contact with piercing yellow eyes.\u00a0\u00a0They continue to stare into my dark brown ones.\u00a0\u00a0It\u2019s a coopers hawk.\u00a0\u00a0The curve of its beak comes to a sharp point at the tip.\u00a0\u00a0I look down hoping &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ds.guilford.edu\/classes\/english\/228-2019s\/uncategorized\/hawk\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Hawk&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ds.guilford.edu\/classes\/english\/228-2019s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1481","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ds.guilford.edu\/classes\/english\/228-2019s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ds.guilford.edu\/classes\/english\/228-2019s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ds.guilford.edu\/classes\/english\/228-2019s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ds.guilford.edu\/classes\/english\/228-2019s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1481"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ds.guilford.edu\/classes\/english\/228-2019s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1481\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1498,"href":"https:\/\/ds.guilford.edu\/classes\/english\/228-2019s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1481\/revisions\/1498"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ds.guilford.edu\/classes\/english\/228-2019s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ds.guilford.edu\/classes\/english\/228-2019s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ds.guilford.edu\/classes\/english\/228-2019s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}