{"id":721,"date":"2011-12-03T23:04:17","date_gmt":"2011-12-03T23:04:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/flightofthesoul\/?p=721"},"modified":"2011-12-03T01:37:16","modified_gmt":"2011-12-03T01:37:16","slug":"ducks-of-a-feather","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/flightofthesoul\/2011\/12\/ducks-of-a-feather.html","title":{"rendered":"Ducks of a Feather"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It doesn&#8217;t matter. Like Mary Oliver said in her poem Wild Geese &#8220;you only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves&#8221; and if it loves Ducks, so be it, get yourself some ducks and put them in your back yard and feed them and love them and give them names like Quacker and Flapper&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Flapper, my chatterbox pet duck\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/qE5t9VZyh_U?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/flightofthesoul\/2011\/12\/ducks-of-a-feather.html\/quacker-and-flapper-ducks-of-a-feather\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-735\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-735 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/305\/2011\/12\/Quacker-and-Flapper-Ducks-of-a-Feather-e1322876135697-300x217.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"217\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It doesn&#8217;t matter. 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