{"id":5050,"date":"2013-08-07T13:18:10","date_gmt":"2013-08-07T19:18:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/?page_id=5050"},"modified":"2013-08-07T13:18:10","modified_gmt":"2013-08-07T19:18:10","slug":"robert-buswell","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/?page_id=5050","title":{"rendered":"Robert Buswell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>On Discovering Extinct Species<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They were merely barbarians,&#8221; Kit sighed.<br \/>\nKit lied, I knew.<br \/>\nIf that were true, they&#8217;d have slaughtered<br \/>\nand eaten their daughters and sons.<br \/>\nTheir guns would be treasured and leaders<br \/>\nmeasured by the size of their warships.<br \/>\n&#8220;They did not worship gods!&#8221; I cried.<br \/>\nKit took me aside, away from the others,<br \/>\nand said, &#8220;I know you discovered this planet,<br \/>\nbut damn it, bullet wounds in buried bones<br \/>\nalone should make you see.<br \/>\nNo mystery exists &#8212; they were animals,<br \/>\nmammals in jeweled underclothing,<br \/>\ngoing headlong blind toward extinction.<br \/>\nMake no kind distinction between<br \/>\nthese primates and other lower life forms.&#8221;<br \/>\nTorn between the heft of Kit&#8217;s truth and my pride,<br \/>\nI opened my eyes and we left. For all we know<br \/>\neternal snows still cover their ruins.<\/p>\n<p><strong>ROBERT BUSWELL<\/strong> is native to the forests of northern Colorado and can be seen there in the late summer and early autumn months. He flourishes in direct sunlight and needs very little water. He typically lives 15-20 years in the wild, with a shorter lifespan in captivity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Discovering Extinct Species &#8220;They were merely barbarians,&#8221; Kit sighed. Kit lied, I knew. If that were true, they&#8217;d have slaughtered and eaten their daughters and sons. Their guns would be treasured and leaders measured by the size of their &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/?page_id=5050\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":5034,"menu_order":16,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-5050","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P15duy-1js","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5050","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5050"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5050\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5191,"href":"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5050\/revisions\/5191"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5034"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}