{"id":492,"date":"2013-07-06T00:05:59","date_gmt":"2013-07-05T23:05:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/draigweb.co.uk\/draigweb\/?p=492"},"modified":"2013-07-06T00:05:59","modified_gmt":"2013-07-05T23:05:59","slug":"poem-for-a-poet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.draigweb.co.uk\/draigweb\/poem-for-a-poet\/","title":{"rendered":"Poem for a Poet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Were it not so sure<br \/>\nof itself,<br \/>\nthe poem would be<br \/>\nlike the poet &#8211;<br \/>\nwavering over a phonetic confluence,<br \/>\nmuttering idly<br \/>\nover an image.  Reluctantly<br \/>\nshouting the dark<br \/>\ndown into submission;<br \/>\ncalling to a hopeless array<br \/>\nof statue-like muses.<\/p>\n<p>The poem is our consciousness<br \/>\ncome alive,<br \/>\nreflections of the architect\u2019s dream,<br \/>\nor the proud<br \/>\nmoments<br \/>\nwhen the heart leaps.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Were it not so sure of itself, the poem would be like the poet &#8211; wavering over a phonetic confluence, muttering idly over an image. Reluctantly shouting the dark down into submission; calling to a hopeless array of statue-like muses. The poem is our consciousness come alive, reflections of the architect\u2019s dream, or the proud [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.draigweb.co.uk\/draigweb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492","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=492"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.draigweb.co.uk\/draigweb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":493,"href":"https:\/\/www.draigweb.co.uk\/draigweb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492\/revisions\/493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.draigweb.co.uk\/draigweb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.draigweb.co.uk\/draigweb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.draigweb.co.uk\/draigweb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}