{"id":79,"date":"2015-05-17T18:46:33","date_gmt":"2015-05-17T18:46:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.windhoverphotojournalism.com\/?page_id=79"},"modified":"2015-08-23T16:45:18","modified_gmt":"2015-08-23T16:45:18","slug":"about-windhover","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.windhoverphotojournalism.com\/?page_id=79","title":{"rendered":"About Windhover"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.windhoverphotojournalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Hankins.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full wp-image-80 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.windhoverphotojournalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Hankins.jpg\" alt=\"Hankins\" width=\"240\" height=\"385\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.windhoverphotojournalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Hankins.jpg 240w, https:\/\/www.windhoverphotojournalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Hankins-187x300.jpg 187w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>When we first moved to 15 acres of rural Platte County, MO. nearly 20 years ago, it seemed that the place was home to more hawks than I had seen in one place before. Perhaps a little of that feeling came from the joy of finally getting to live in \u201cthe country,\u201d after my mythical growing up experiences playing on my grandparents\u2019 farms.<\/p>\n<p>The hawks were indeed here, hovering above our acreage, joining me as I mowed the fields with my little Ford 9N tractor. As I uncovered the field mice or rabbits or snakes, the hawks would suddenly appear and take notice of what I was doing. We seemed to be working in tandem, although I was actually pulling for the field mice.<\/p>\n<p>The visions of hawks in the air or gliding down skimming across the top of the grass or just hovering still in the palm of a strong south breeze led me back to a poem I had not read since college: \u201cThe Windhover\u201d by Gerard Manley Hopkins. As I read it again I felt what Hopkins must have felt, and these words stuck:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left; padding-left: 330px;\">\u201cMy heart in hiding stirred for a bird&#8211;<br \/>\nthe achieve of, the mastery of the thing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 270px;\">From then on, Marcia and I have called our little postage stamp of ground&#8211;Windhover.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When we first moved to 15 acres of rural Platte County, MO. nearly 20 years ago, it seemed that the place was home to more hawks than I had seen in one place before. Perhaps a little of that feeling came from the joy of finally getting to live in \u201cthe country,\u201d after my mythical &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.windhoverphotojournalism.com\/?page_id=79\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;About Windhover&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-79","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.windhoverphotojournalism.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/79","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.windhoverphotojournalism.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.windhoverphotojournalism.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.windhoverphotojournalism.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.windhoverphotojournalism.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=79"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.windhoverphotojournalism.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/79\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":657,"href":"https:\/\/www.windhoverphotojournalism.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/79\/revisions\/657"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.windhoverphotojournalism.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=79"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}