{"id":1409,"date":"2024-08-31T07:39:52","date_gmt":"2024-08-31T07:39:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scarletline.com\/ashepherd\/?p=1409"},"modified":"2024-08-31T07:39:52","modified_gmt":"2024-08-31T07:39:52","slug":"cobbled-together","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.scarletline.com\/ashepherd\/2024\/08\/31\/cobbled-together\/","title":{"rendered":"Cobbled together"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" src=\"http:\/\/www.scarletline.com\/ashepherd\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/06\/poem239.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-203\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.scarletline.com\/ashepherd\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/06\/poem239.jpg 800w, http:\/\/www.scarletline.com\/ashepherd\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/06\/poem239-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.scarletline.com\/ashepherd\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/06\/poem239-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Today the sky is low overhead.<br>It&#8217;s paved with clouds &#8211; small and hard;<br>It presses down, hue and weight of lead.<br>You feel hemmed in an empty prison yard.<br><br>Today the sea is cold and oily-still,<br>reflecting cobbled sky &#8211; grey shades on grey.<br>Today the pain is harder to conceal,<br>as heavy blankness saps your strength away.<br><br>Today it&#8217;s hard to leave the past behind<br>you try ignoring sky and sea in vain.<br>They press too tight, you panic, deaf and blind.<br>It&#8217;s hard to move, but harder &#8211; to remain.<br><br>You trudge through empty, foggy, silent streets<br>the road is uphill. The hill is high.<br>One foot in front of other, body leads.<br>Insensibly, you walk into the sky<br><br>And on you walk, along the cobbled sky,<br>the sea above reflecting endless plain.<br>To see the world anew. To say good-bye.<br>To greet the sun that burns support away.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today the sky is low overhead.It&#8217;s paved with clouds &#8211; small and hard;It presses down, hue and weight of lead.You feel hemmed in an empty prison yard. Today the sea is cold and oily-still,reflecting cobbled sky &#8211; grey shades on grey.Today the pain is harder to conceal,as heavy blankness saps your strength away. Today it&#8217;s [&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":[339,20,23,340],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.scarletline.com\/ashepherd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1409"}],"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=1409"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.scarletline.com\/ashepherd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1409\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1410,"href":"http:\/\/www.scarletline.com\/ashepherd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1409\/revisions\/1410"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.scarletline.com\/ashepherd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.scarletline.com\/ashepherd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.scarletline.com\/ashepherd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}