{"id":5620,"date":"2013-11-12T09:00:26","date_gmt":"2013-11-12T09:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ink.verticalplus.co.uk\/archive\/?p=5620"},"modified":"2013-10-28T15:25:54","modified_gmt":"2013-10-28T15:25:54","slug":"matthew-friday-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/matthew-friday-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Matthew Friday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Schr\u00f6dinger\u2019s Hummingbirds<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Feathered electrons nipping through the air<br \/>\non a sugary buzz, they click and whistle,<br \/>\ntwittering like computer servers,<br \/>\nfiring through airy lines of possibility.<\/p>\n<p>They circle each other in tiny tornados,<br \/>\nimpersonating bees who can only dream<br \/>\nof being as agile swooping into the sweet<br \/>\ntasting feeders, chasing each other at Mach speeds,<\/p>\n<p>Sat on a telephone line, they are tiny black bulges<br \/>\non the cable \u2013 momentarily frozen conversations.<br \/>\nIn seconds they are darting dots again, pulsing<br \/>\nin random order, unpredictable, stopping<\/p>\n<p>on tightly reigned g-forces, wings furiously<br \/>\nfolding back layers of disbelieving air,<br \/>\ndefying gravity in their quantum flapping,<br \/>\nthen reeling backwards into the trees,<\/p>\n<p>back into their own tiny bodies. Potentially<br \/>\neverywhere at once \u2013 only seeing them<br \/>\nmakes them decide where they want to be,<br \/>\nwhich laws of nature to obey. Or not.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: x-small;\"><strong>Matthew Friday<\/strong> is a writer, professional storyteller and primary school teacher. By all means check out the results at: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.matthewfriday.com\/\">www.matthewfriday.com <\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Schr\u00f6dinger\u2019s Hummingbirds Feathered electrons nipping through the air on a sugary buzz, they click and whistle, twittering like computer servers, firing through airy lines of possibility. They circle each other in tiny tornados, impersonating bees who can only dream of being as agile swooping into the sweet tasting feeders, chasing each other [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5620","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5620","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5620"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5620\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5622,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5620\/revisions\/5622"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}