{"id":437,"date":"2020-02-14T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-02-14T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unanchoreddays.co.uk\/?p=437"},"modified":"2020-02-11T11:44:00","modified_gmt":"2020-02-11T11:44:00","slug":"slocums-solitude","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unanchoreddays.co.uk\/?p=437","title":{"rendered":"Slocum\u2019s Solitude"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If bleak had been the intention<br>\nI\u2019d have worn black<br>\nand let the fire die<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Let me just<br>\nwork up a little sunshine<br>\nto smear over these filthy panes<br>\nand put on some music<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There is a pause<br>\nisn\u2019t there always a pause?<br>\nand some movement<br>\nin other rooms<br>\na passing fear of voices<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If all these words mean nothing<br>\nwhat then?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The mirror is hung too high now<br>\nI can\u2019t share<br>\nthis false smile<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I can sit at tables I have made<br>\nand look at books that I have read<br>\nand books that I have yet to read, but<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">One I now recall<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I sailed with him once<br>\nwhen it seemed possible,<br>\nprobable, almost certain<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">alas<br> my timid dry feet spurned the sea<br> from this rooted shore<br> I neglected to steam and bend the wood,<br> the toil was lost<br> in the imagining<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Now all that\u2019s left of this unseaworthy hull<br>\nis caulking the leaky seams<br>\nwith Slocum\u2019s solitude<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If bleak had been the intention I\u2019d have worn black and let the fire die Let me just work up a little sunshine to smear over these filthy panes and put on some music There is a pause isn\u2019t there always a pause? and some movement in other rooms a passing fear of voices If&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[5,7,6],"class_list":["post-437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry","tag-poem","tag-poems-on-wordpress","tag-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/unanchoreddays.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/unanchoreddays.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/unanchoreddays.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unanchoreddays.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unanchoreddays.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=437"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/unanchoreddays.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":440,"href":"https:\/\/unanchoreddays.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437\/revisions\/440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/unanchoreddays.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unanchoreddays.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unanchoreddays.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}