{"id":530,"date":"2013-07-06T00:11:29","date_gmt":"2013-07-05T23:11:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/draigweb.co.uk\/draigweb\/?p=530"},"modified":"2013-07-06T00:11:29","modified_gmt":"2013-07-05T23:11:29","slug":"the-town-on-saturday-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.draigweb.co.uk\/draigweb\/the-town-on-saturday-night\/","title":{"rendered":"The Town on Saturday Night"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Englynion-style Poems<\/p>\n<p>Englynion (plural of Englyn) are an ancient Welsh verse-form, they are typically composed of any number of short three-line stanzas<\/p>\n<p>The Town on Saturday Night<\/p>\n<p>Bright are the streets to the merry passing<br \/>\nOf youths singing songs of bravado;<br \/>\nThe words pour forth harsh and guttural.<\/p>\n<p>The streets usher them to the bars,<br \/>\nIndifferently mixing with litter<br \/>\nThe shouts, accusations and curses.<\/p>\n<p>The derelict chapel stands brooding,<br \/>\nIts dignity wasted on darkness &#8211;<br \/>\nFrom an age once in bloom.<\/p>\n<p>The mirage of concord conceals<br \/>\nThe long years of discord &#8211;<br \/>\nBetween two restless nations, two cultures.<\/p>\n<p>The turmoil of ages seems distant,<br \/>\nPast glories of labour and faith &#8211;<br \/>\nDark memories coalesce in the night.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Englynion-style Poems Englynion (plural of Englyn) are an ancient Welsh verse-form, they are typically composed of any number of short three-line stanzas The Town on Saturday Night Bright are the streets to the merry passing Of youths singing songs of bravado; The words pour forth harsh and guttural. The streets usher them to the bars, [&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-530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.draigweb.co.uk\/draigweb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/530","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=530"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.draigweb.co.uk\/draigweb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/530\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":531,"href":"https:\/\/www.draigweb.co.uk\/draigweb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/530\/revisions\/531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.draigweb.co.uk\/draigweb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.draigweb.co.uk\/draigweb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.draigweb.co.uk\/draigweb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}