{"id":486,"date":"2013-07-06T00:05:05","date_gmt":"2013-07-05T23:05:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/draigweb.co.uk\/draigweb\/?p=486"},"modified":"2015-08-24T15:23:25","modified_gmt":"2015-08-24T14:23:25","slug":"scapegoat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.draigweb.co.uk\/draigweb\/scapegoat\/","title":{"rendered":"Scapegoat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Scapegoat illustration\" src=\"http:\/\/draigweb.co.uk\/draigweb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/pics-010.jpg\"  \/><br \/>\nUnder the sky, clouds are blackening;<br \/>\ncasting pale shadows<br \/>\nthese anvils spit their grievances<br \/>\nat a heaving seabed &#8211;<br \/>\nfull of coral, a desert pasture<br \/>\nand the alluvial night hunters<br \/>\nthat gesticulate a reason beyond walls of ice.<\/p>\n<p>Over the stony horizon, obscured by mists<br \/>\nand a sea abeyance<br \/>\nI tread my pilgrimage, a fabulous Salem<br \/>\npaved with blood covenants lies ahead.<br \/>\nThe pass goes on &#8211;<br \/>\nwill it go on for ever? This smiling litany<br \/>\nblazoned with graces like a nosferatu<br \/>\njust out of the cellar.<\/p>\n<p>I have anchored home, over the fire-pots &#8211;<br \/>\na reception of faceless men<br \/>\nsquander my juices on a desert altar;<br \/>\nthe condemned goat,<br \/>\nmy god-given ally<br \/>\nbleaches beneath a passive sun.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Under the sky, clouds are blackening; casting pale shadows these anvils spit their grievances at a heaving seabed &#8211; full of coral, a desert pasture and the alluvial night hunters that gesticulate a reason beyond walls of ice. Over the stony horizon, obscured by mists and a sea abeyance I tread my pilgrimage, a fabulous [&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-486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.draigweb.co.uk\/draigweb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486","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=486"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.draigweb.co.uk\/draigweb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1002,"href":"https:\/\/www.draigweb.co.uk\/draigweb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486\/revisions\/1002"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.draigweb.co.uk\/draigweb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.draigweb.co.uk\/draigweb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.draigweb.co.uk\/draigweb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}