{"id":774,"date":"2017-09-08T12:43:14","date_gmt":"2017-09-08T12:43:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lostspeciesday.org\/?p=774"},"modified":"2017-09-25T16:47:20","modified_gmt":"2017-09-25T16:47:20","slug":"she-will-bury-them-by-megan-hollingsworth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lostspeciesday.org\/?p=774","title":{"rendered":"She Will Bury Them &#8211; by Megan Hollingsworth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/219044209?title=0&amp;byline=0\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/219044209\">she will bury them<\/a> from <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/extinctionwitness\">Extinction Witness<\/a> on <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\">Vimeo<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>She counts<\/p>\n<p>about 50,000 dead<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>That is,<\/p>\n<p>about 300 colonies<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>And she will bury them<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Numbers she counts<\/p>\n<p>so many<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>That is,<\/p>\n<p>more than enough<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>And she will bury them all<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In numbers<\/p>\n<p>many hands gather<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>so she can bury them<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Begging,<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Who will love the flowers?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Author&#8217;s note: The poem voiced in SHE WILL BURY THEM counts the cost in one spraying of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.iucn.org\/news\/secretariat\/201709\/severe-threats-biodiversity-neonicotinoid-pesticides-revealed-latest-scientific-review\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?hl=en&amp;q=https:\/\/www.iucn.org\/news\/secretariat\/201709\/severe-threats-biodiversity-neonicotinoid-pesticides-revealed-latest-scientific-review&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1506443822527000&amp;usg=AFQjCNHxa5eRbNL39Me1lOoJ_cdTAuclpA\">neonicotinoids<\/a>, a class of neuro-active insecticides that killed about 50,000 bees in Wilsonville, Oregon summer 2013. The poem closes with an honest question asked by someone uncertain of who she is becoming.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>she will bury them from Extinction Witness on Vimeo. &nbsp; She counts about 50,000 dead &nbsp; That is, about 300 colonies &nbsp; And she will bury them &nbsp; Numbers she counts so many &nbsp; That is, more than enough &nbsp; And she will bury them all &nbsp; In numbers many hands gather &nbsp; so she [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","without-featured-image"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7RX4u-cu","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lostspeciesday.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/774","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lostspeciesday.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lostspeciesday.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lostspeciesday.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lostspeciesday.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=774"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.lostspeciesday.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/774\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":796,"href":"https:\/\/www.lostspeciesday.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/774\/revisions\/796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lostspeciesday.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lostspeciesday.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lostspeciesday.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}