{"id":1662,"date":"2020-05-29T15:19:34","date_gmt":"2020-05-29T22:19:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.timporter.com\/seconddraft\/?p=1662"},"modified":"2020-05-30T09:26:53","modified_gmt":"2020-05-30T16:26:53","slug":"my-oaxaca-the-bird-that-fell-from-the-sky","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.timporter.com\/seconddraft\/?p=1662","title":{"rendered":"My Oaxaca &#8212; The Bird That Fell From the Sky"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"668\" src=\"http:\/\/www.timporter.com\/seconddraft\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/SanBartolo_021613_037_Print-1024x668.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1663\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.timporter.com\/seconddraft\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/SanBartolo_021613_037_Print-1024x668.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.timporter.com\/seconddraft\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/SanBartolo_021613_037_Print-300x196.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.timporter.com\/seconddraft\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/SanBartolo_021613_037_Print-768x501.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.timporter.com\/seconddraft\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/SanBartolo_021613_037_Print-1536x1001.jpg 1536w, http:\/\/www.timporter.com\/seconddraft\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/SanBartolo_021613_037_Print-2048x1335.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-drop-cap wp-block-paragraph\">Jos\u00e9 and his family had the day off from their work at the city dump, where they picked plastic bottles and sheets of carboard out of the ripe muck to sell to recyclers. They were <em>pepenadores.<\/em> The day was waning, and it was almost time to walk the mile to the highway to catch a city-bound bus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>That\u2019s when Jos\u00e9 asked me: <\/strong>Would you like to see my eagle? One thing I learned in journalism is that certain questions demand a \u201cyes.\u201d That was one of them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">J<strong>os\u00e9 went inside<\/strong> his cinder-block house and returned carrying a dead bird mounted on a polished piece of wood. He said it was an eagle. Me, I thought it looked more like a hawk, and to this day I can\u2019t be sure either way. Whatever the raptor was, it was stunning. He set the bird on the trunk of his car and told me how he came to have it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>The bird had fallen <\/strong>from the sky one afternoon, victim of a collision with a power line. It landed on the ground near Jos\u00e9\u2019s house, broken and dying. Jose gave the bird the gift of death; in return, the bird gave Jos\u00e9 his most treasured possession.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jos\u00e9 and his family had the day off from their work at the city dump, where they picked plastic bottles and sheets of carboard out of the ripe muck to sell to recyclers. They were pepenadores. 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