{"id":4601,"date":"2024-05-02T09:01:10","date_gmt":"2024-05-02T13:01:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/?p=4601"},"modified":"2024-05-02T09:01:12","modified_gmt":"2024-05-02T13:01:12","slug":"a-poem-for-a-thursday-260","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/2024\/05\/02\/a-poem-for-a-thursday-260\/","title":{"rendered":"A Poem for a Thursday #260"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/20240423_180626-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4602\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<div style=\"height:50px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I haven&#8217;t posted on here in a few weeks. Hopefully, my absence was noted! My daughter and I were in Scotland and London for vacation. We had an absolutely wonderful time and I am sure I will write a post all about our adventures. It is a good way to force people to look at my photos. In the meantime, here is one photo and a poem about Scotland. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:50px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse\">It was a day peculiar to this piece of the planet,<br>when larks rose on long thin strings of singing<br>and the air shifted with the shimmer of actual angels.<br>Greenness entered the body. The grasses<br>shivered with presences, and sunlight<br>stayed like a halo on hair and heather and hills.<br>Walking into town, I saw, in a radiant raincoat,<br>the woman from the fish-shop. 'What a day it is!'<br>cried I, like a sunstruck madman.<br>And what did she have to say for it?<br>Her brow grew bleak, her ancestors raged in their graves<br>as she spoke with their ancient misery:<br>'We'll pay for it, we'll pay for it, we'll pay for it!'<br><br>Scotland <br>Alistair Reid<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I haven&#8217;t posted on here in a few weeks. Hopefully, my absence was noted! My daughter and I were in Scotland and London for vacation. We had an absolutely wonderful time and I am sure I will write a post all about our adventures. It is a good way to force people to look at my photos. In the meantime, here is one photo and a poem about Scotland. It was a day peculiar to this piece of the planet,when larks rose on long thin strings of singingand the air shifted with the shimmer of actual angels.Greenness entered the body. The grassesshivered with presences, and sunlightstayed like a halo on hair and heather and hills.Walking into town, I saw, in a radiant raincoat,the woman from the fish-shop. &#8216;What a day it is!&#8217;cried I, like a sunstruck madman.And what did she have to say for it?Her brow grew bleak, her ancestors raged in their gravesas she spoke with their ancient misery:&#8217;We&#8217;ll pay for it, we&#8217;ll pay for it, we&#8217;ll pay for it!&#8217;Scotland Alistair Reid<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4602,"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,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-poem-for-a-thursday"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4601","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4601"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4601\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4604,"href":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4601\/revisions\/4604"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4602"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}