{"id":1311,"date":"2024-08-29T17:12:06","date_gmt":"2024-08-29T17:12:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scarletline.com\/ashepherd\/?p=1311"},"modified":"2024-08-29T17:12:07","modified_gmt":"2024-08-29T17:12:07","slug":"ode-to-spring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.scarletline.com\/ashepherd\/2024\/08\/29\/ode-to-spring\/","title":{"rendered":"Ode to Spring"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"258\" src=\"http:\/\/www.scarletline.com\/ashepherd\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/06\/poem190.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-721\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.scarletline.com\/ashepherd\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/06\/poem190.jpg 800w, http:\/\/www.scarletline.com\/ashepherd\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/06\/poem190-300x97.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.scarletline.com\/ashepherd\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/06\/poem190-768x248.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Forming a watercolour from a sketch &#8211;<br>new blooms and leaves are springing up on trees.<br>At five o&#8217;clock the pigeons squall and kvetch &#8211;<br>one wants to grab them by the neck and squeeze.<br><br>Deciduous adults drop woolly socks,<br>teenagers sprout knees and belly-buttons,<br>their clothes bloom into heterodox;<br>the streets are full of lambs that dress as muttons.<br><br>The warming sun incites the happy shirkers<br>as winds are loosing their winter punch.<br>The lawns fill with blooming office workers<br>and rubbish left from their picnic lunch.<br><br>The fuel-poor stop heating and start eating,<br>with fuller stomachs hearts begin to sing.<br>As life begins anew, the sheep are bleating.<br>The spring has come. Hooray for blooming spring.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Forming a watercolour from a sketch &#8211;new blooms and leaves are springing up on trees.At five o&#8217;clock the pigeons squall and kvetch &#8211;one wants to grab them by the neck and squeeze. Deciduous adults drop woolly socks,teenagers sprout knees and belly-buttons,their clothes bloom into heterodox;the streets are full of lambs that dress as muttons. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[16,23,279],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.scarletline.com\/ashepherd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1311"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.scarletline.com\/ashepherd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.scarletline.com\/ashepherd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.scarletline.com\/ashepherd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.scarletline.com\/ashepherd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1311"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.scarletline.com\/ashepherd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1311\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1312,"href":"http:\/\/www.scarletline.com\/ashepherd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1311\/revisions\/1312"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.scarletline.com\/ashepherd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.scarletline.com\/ashepherd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.scarletline.com\/ashepherd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}