{"id":526,"date":"2013-07-06T00:10:34","date_gmt":"2013-07-05T23:10:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/draigweb.co.uk\/draigweb\/?p=526"},"modified":"2013-07-06T00:10:34","modified_gmt":"2013-07-05T23:10:34","slug":"the-spiral","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.draigweb.co.uk\/draigweb\/the-spiral\/","title":{"rendered":"The Spiral"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From my window-seat, I see the landscape fly,<br \/>\nforms pass, but who is moving &#8211;<br \/>\nthe traveller within the shell of motion<br \/>\nor the shifting world beyond?<\/p>\n<p>I occupy an ever-moving stance<br \/>\ndown the winding spiral&#8217;s arm.<br \/>\nSometimes, the frontier between<br \/>\nhere and the emptiness beyond is blurred.<\/p>\n<p>At times a haze obscures the crystal view<br \/>\nI thought to shelter me, a world serene;<br \/>\ninstead the mind is played by scenes<br \/>\nbefore and after the immediate.<\/p>\n<p>The fleeting netherworld reveals itself<br \/>\nbut for the barest breath;<br \/>\nthe path is tangled and obscure,<br \/>\na ghostly shell of the corporeal.<\/p>\n<p>Strange images assail my eyes &#8211;<br \/>\nfamiliar recollections from my past<br \/>\nor future that has yet to be,<br \/>\nthese thoughts unwillingly bestir my dreams.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From my window-seat, I see the landscape fly, forms pass, but who is moving &#8211; the traveller within the shell of motion or the shifting world beyond? I occupy an ever-moving stance down the winding spiral&#8217;s arm. Sometimes, the frontier between here and the emptiness beyond is blurred. At times a haze obscures the crystal [&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-526","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.draigweb.co.uk\/draigweb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/526","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=526"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.draigweb.co.uk\/draigweb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/526\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":527,"href":"https:\/\/www.draigweb.co.uk\/draigweb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/526\/revisions\/527"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.draigweb.co.uk\/draigweb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.draigweb.co.uk\/draigweb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.draigweb.co.uk\/draigweb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}