{"id":474,"date":"2013-07-06T00:03:10","date_gmt":"2013-07-05T23:03:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/draigweb.co.uk\/draigweb\/?p=474"},"modified":"2015-08-24T15:20:13","modified_gmt":"2015-08-24T14:20:13","slug":"cave","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.draigweb.co.uk\/draigweb\/cave\/","title":{"rendered":"Cave"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"510\" height=\"702\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-604\" src=\"http:\/\/draigweb.co.uk\/draigweb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/pics-011.jpg\" alt=\"Cave illustration\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.draigweb.co.uk\/draigweb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/pics-011.jpg 510w, https:\/\/www.draigweb.co.uk\/draigweb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/pics-011-217x300.jpg 217w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 510px) 100vw, 510px\" \/><br \/>\nDeep, deep underground &#8211;<br \/>\nthe hoary troll<br \/>\ncounts moonstones with a flickering pierce,<br \/>\ncasting pale shadows in the glow<br \/>\nof incandescent suns &#8211;<br \/>\nslashing the dark with hungry<br \/>\ncadaverous teeth.<\/p>\n<p>A grinning seabird<br \/>\nperched and waiting on a rubble pile<br \/>\nsurveys the scene. In his eye<br \/>\na nebulous sea tolls the hour.<\/p>\n<p>Now, our fiendish companion<br \/>\nhammers out contractible alloys;<br \/>\nhis beating sledge<br \/>\nsparks off the anvil ground. A searing rod<br \/>\nemerges sparkling from stagnant<br \/>\nfountain depths. Overhead,<br \/>\na starless firmament applauds.<\/p>\n<p>Casting pale favours over its abeyance edge,<br \/>\nan ivory smile<br \/>\ngaping at this abysmal slave<br \/>\npetrifies its seasons.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Deep, deep underground &#8211; the hoary troll counts moonstones with a flickering pierce, casting pale shadows in the glow of incandescent suns &#8211; slashing the dark with hungry cadaverous teeth. A grinning seabird perched and waiting on a rubble pile surveys the scene. In his eye a nebulous sea tolls the hour. Now, our fiendish [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.draigweb.co.uk\/draigweb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.draigweb.co.uk\/draigweb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.draigweb.co.uk\/draigweb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.draigweb.co.uk\/draigweb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.draigweb.co.uk\/draigweb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=474"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.draigweb.co.uk\/draigweb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":998,"href":"https:\/\/www.draigweb.co.uk\/draigweb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474\/revisions\/998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.draigweb.co.uk\/draigweb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.draigweb.co.uk\/draigweb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.draigweb.co.uk\/draigweb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}