{"id":184,"date":"2013-10-15T16:19:55","date_gmt":"2013-10-15T21:19:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/marissalingen.com\/blog\/?p=184"},"modified":"2013-10-15T16:19:55","modified_gmt":"2013-10-15T21:19:55","slug":"one-for-sorrow-two-for-holy-crud-thats-a-lot-of-crows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marissalingen.com\/blog\/?p=184","title":{"rendered":"One for sorrow, two for&#8230;holy crud, that&#8217;s a lot of crows."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I know at least two rhymes for counting crows, off the top of my head (&#8220;One for sorrow, two for joy,&#8221; they both start out), but I just looked out in my backyard, and there were dozens of crows.  Scores of crows.  There were not more crows than I could shake a stick at, because I would just stand at the back door and shake it broadly.  But I don&#8217;t really <em>want<\/em> to go shake a stick at the crows, because it has a sort of Hitchcockian vibe at the moment.  Say what you will in favor of Lovecraft, pulsing horrors mostly don&#8217;t show up in my backyard without notice.  And giant flocks of birds&#8230;apparently do.<\/p>\n<p>So what I want to know is: where does the crow counting rhyme go after seven or, in some extreme cases, ten?  It&#8217;s really looking to me like the fortune-telling aspect will start to wear thin with a flock like this.  &#8220;Forty-seven for a hangnail&#8230;forty-eight for your library books came in&#8230;forty-nine for, uh, a sale on the kind of cheese you don&#8217;t want to buy&#8230;.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I know at least two rhymes for counting crows, off the top of my head (&#8220;One for sorrow, two for joy,&#8221; they both start out), but I just looked out in my backyard, and there were dozens of crows. Scores of crows. There were not more crows than I could shake a stick at, because [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[15],"class_list":["post-184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-pure-silliness"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marissalingen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marissalingen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marissalingen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marissalingen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marissalingen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=184"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/marissalingen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":185,"href":"https:\/\/marissalingen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184\/revisions\/185"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marissalingen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marissalingen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marissalingen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}