{"id":534,"date":"2023-01-07T09:50:50","date_gmt":"2023-01-07T09:50:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/curatedlines.online\/?p=534"},"modified":"2023-01-07T09:50:50","modified_gmt":"2023-01-07T09:50:50","slug":"the-absent-sailor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/curatedlines.online\/index.php\/2023\/01\/07\/the-absent-sailor\/","title":{"rendered":"The Absent Sailor"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/curatedlines.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/660-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-535\" srcset=\"https:\/\/curatedlines.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/660-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/curatedlines.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/660-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/curatedlines.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/660-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/curatedlines.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/660-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/curatedlines.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/660-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/curatedlines.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/660-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/curatedlines.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/660-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/curatedlines.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/660-1980x1320.jpg 1980w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Sunset<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Letters<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Those love letters from the seventies<br>I could not bear to read again<br>and could not bear to throw<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Those airmail forms<br>those tortured lonely twelve page laments<br>that I read and read so many times<br>in my cabin off Cape Town,<br>in Melbourne and Sydney:<br>So many words<br>So\u00a0 much love<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But in the end<br>They were just ash<br>And I scattered them<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ashes to her ashes<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\">First published in <em><a href=\"https:\/\/curatedlines.online\/index.php\/books\/#MW\">Mostly Welsh<\/a><\/em> 2019 (Y Lolfa) p.92<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Letters Those love letters from the seventiesI could not bear to read againand could not bear to throw Those airmail formsthose tortured lonely twelve page lamentsthat I read and read so many timesin my cabin off Cape Town,in Melbourne and Sydney:So many wordsSo\u00a0 much love But in the endThey were just ashAnd I scattered them [&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":[19,50,32],"class_list":["post-534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry","tag-chris-armstrong","tag-loss","tag-mostly-welsh"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/curatedlines.online\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534","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=534"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/curatedlines.online\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":537,"href":"https:\/\/curatedlines.online\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534\/revisions\/537"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/curatedlines.online\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/curatedlines.online\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/curatedlines.online\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}