{"id":1830,"date":"2016-04-13T00:00:30","date_gmt":"2016-04-13T04:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/mission-and-identity\/?p=1830"},"modified":"2019-09-18T16:47:46","modified_gmt":"2019-09-18T20:47:46","slug":"april-13-spring-walleye-run","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/2016\/04\/13\/april-13-spring-walleye-run\/","title":{"rendered":"April 13  &#8212;  Spring Walleye Run"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Wednesday April 13 \u00a0\u2014 \u00a0 &#8220;<\/strong><strong>We are reconciled, I think, \u00a0. \u00a0. \u00a0. \u00a0. \u00a0To too much.\u201d \u00a0 Mary Olive<\/strong>r<\/p>\n<p>I posted this piece from Crain\u2019s last year, April 29. \u00a0It entrances me, imagining c. 10 million walleye migrating each year from Lake Erie into the Detroit River to spawn. When I walk the city\u2019s sparkling River Walk, the mile wide river continually refreshes my spirits, as if its beauty in my ears and eyes were its only purpose. \u00a0River refreshment offers many people, on many days, an anointing. \u00a0That same river hosts fast-boat with their rooster tail turns, water sports, party boats and\u00a0bigger slower boats packing huge amounts of freight \u2014 the work and play and rest of human beings.<\/p>\n<p>These Spring days, I am indebted to last April\u2019s reminder from Crain\u2019s that the river is home to much more life than us human beings. \u00a0Thinking all this I couldn\u2019t resist running last <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/2015\/04\/29\/walleye-the-spring-run-and-its-river\/\">April 29\u2019s post<\/a> again. \u00a0 Mary Oliver\u2019s \u201cThe Lark\u201d provided counterpoint to the walleye last spring. \u00a0It makes a fine read this year too.<\/p>\n<p>Have a blest Wednesday, the middle of the work week near the middle of April.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>john sj<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wednesday April 13 \u00a0\u2014 \u00a0 &#8220;We are reconciled, I think, \u00a0. \u00a0. \u00a0. \u00a0. \u00a0To too much.\u201d \u00a0 Mary Oliver I posted this piece from Crain\u2019s last year, April 29. \u00a0It entrances me, imagining c. 10 million walleye migrating each &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/2016\/04\/13\/april-13-spring-walleye-run\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":139,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11641],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1830"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/139"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1830"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1830\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3143,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1830\/revisions\/3143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}