{"id":762,"date":"2010-10-29T01:07:52","date_gmt":"2010-10-28T21:07:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.clarissarizal.com\/blogblog\/?p=762"},"modified":"2010-10-31T03:06:34","modified_gmt":"2010-10-30T23:06:34","slug":"a-fall-fall-a-raven-takes-his-last-breath","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clarissarizal.com\/blog\/2010\/10\/a-fall-fall-a-raven-takes-his-last-breath\/","title":{"rendered":"A Fall Fall &#8211; A Raven Takes His Last Breath"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_763\" style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.clarissarizal.com\/blogblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/Raven_Fall.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-763\" class=\"size-full wp-image-763\" title=\"Raven_Fall\" src=\"http:\/\/www.clarissarizal.com\/blogblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/Raven_Fall.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.clarissarizal.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/Raven_Fall.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.clarissarizal.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/Raven_Fall-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-763\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Raven&#39;s very last rest<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Buddy, the Pomeranian dog, was dashing out the door at noon for a walk before he jumps the twin-engine plane on the 12:30 flight to return home to his master in Hoonah.\u00a0 We didn&#8217;t get around the corner from the property before a Raven fell from the sky directly in front of us, it&#8217;s body bounced a couple of times before landing in the street&#8217;s grassy ditch.\u00a0 I thought at first it was playing hide-and-seek with us because it must have picked up on Buddy being a playful dog.\u00a0 Yet when I approached the raven, I watched as he gasped his last breath,  tongue protruding sharply and with a sudden seizure he froze.<\/p>\n<p>Buddy did not approach him.\u00a0 I looked around for other ravens who may be flying about the high winds and downpour &#8211; no one in sight.\u00a0 I looked up and down the street; looked into other neighbor&#8217;s windows &#8211; no sign of life &#8211; not even the common sounds of the neighborhood ravens.\u00a0 A wet silence approached from the ground up.\u00a0 Not knowing what to do, I took out my camera.<\/p>\n<p>He lies in front of my parent&#8217;s house on this freezing, wet, windy day.\u00a0 I&#8217;m not sure how to handle the passing of a raven.\u00a0 I think of a burial, but that doesn&#8217;t seem right since they naturally die in the wilderness without a coffin! \u00a0 I think of leaving him there for a week, and imagine plucking its feathers, imagining creating a Raven headdress,\u00a0 but what if another animal drags him away and mutilates him?\u00a0 Its body is still warm; I walk away with Buddy running up ahead full of bounce and life.\u00a0 He did not make it on the 12:30 flight to Hoonah.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Buddy, the Pomeranian dog, was dashing out the door at noon for a walk before he jumps the twin-engine plane on the 12:30 flight to return home to his master in Hoonah.\u00a0 We didn&#8217;t get around the corner from the property before a Raven fell from the sky directly in front of us, it&#8217;s body [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[19,91],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-honoring-others","category-eagles-and-ravens"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clarissarizal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/762","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clarissarizal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clarissarizal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clarissarizal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clarissarizal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=762"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.clarissarizal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/762\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":765,"href":"https:\/\/www.clarissarizal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/762\/revisions\/765"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clarissarizal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clarissarizal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clarissarizal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}