{"id":522,"date":"2022-12-20T14:15:01","date_gmt":"2022-12-20T14:15:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/curatedlines.online\/?p=522"},"modified":"2022-12-20T14:15:01","modified_gmt":"2022-12-20T14:15:01","slug":"a-winter-poem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/curatedlines.online\/index.php\/2022\/12\/20\/a-winter-poem\/","title":{"rendered":"A Winter Poem"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/curatedlines.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/P1040063-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-523\" srcset=\"https:\/\/curatedlines.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/P1040063-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/curatedlines.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/P1040063-scaled-600x450.jpg 600w, https:\/\/curatedlines.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/P1040063-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/curatedlines.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/P1040063-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/curatedlines.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/P1040063-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/curatedlines.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/P1040063-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/curatedlines.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/P1040063-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/curatedlines.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/P1040063-1980x1485.jpg 1980w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Winter White<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Winter white. The cold wind across the fields<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>spoke only of snow and wearied him<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>prisoner in the cottage where his impatience yields<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>no words on the cold and barren purity of the snow<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>white paper, no words longing for their page longing<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right\">.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>for their precise moment to mark the dreadful whiteness<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>that had come with winter&#8217;s snow and the ice that followed it,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>their precise moment when reality&#8217;s niveous brightness<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>might be dispelled by their generous rush of verse, of<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>words spilling sliding rhyming across the paper&#8217;s snowy prospect<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right\">.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\">A poem partially inspired by the final word in the final volume &#8211; Quinx or The Ripper&#8217;s Tale &#8211; of <em>The Avignon Quintet<\/em> by Lawrence Durrell.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Winter White Winter white. The cold wind across the fields spoke only of snow and wearied him prisoner in the cottage where his impatience yields no words on the cold and barren purity of the snow white paper, no words longing for their page longing . for their precise moment to mark the dreadful whiteness [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[19,18],"class_list":["post-522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry","tag-chris-armstrong","tag-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/curatedlines.online\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/curatedlines.online\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/curatedlines.online\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/curatedlines.online\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/curatedlines.online\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=522"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/curatedlines.online\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":527,"href":"https:\/\/curatedlines.online\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522\/revisions\/527"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/curatedlines.online\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/curatedlines.online\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/curatedlines.online\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}