{"id":538,"date":"2013-07-06T00:13:25","date_gmt":"2013-07-05T23:13:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/draigweb.co.uk\/draigweb\/?p=538"},"modified":"2013-07-06T00:43:39","modified_gmt":"2013-07-05T23:43:39","slug":"juvenilia-the-sorcerer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.draigweb.co.uk\/draigweb\/juvenilia-the-sorcerer\/","title":{"rendered":"Juvenilia: The Sorcerer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Deep within the forest dim &#8211;<br \/>\nin a house that none might find,<br \/>\ndwelt the aged sorcerer,<br \/>\nstooped his body, dark his mind.<\/p>\n<p>Druid of the woodland glades,<br \/>\nmaster of the wind and sun &#8211;<br \/>\nhealing hand and wisdom&#8217;s voice<br \/>\nthese mysteries were his alone.<\/p>\n<p>Came the villagers to his hearth,<br \/>\ncounsel gave them and herb lore,<br \/>\nken of weather, rain and storm &#8211;<br \/>\nknew he all their kin of yore.<\/p>\n<p>Years passed, forests became fields,<br \/>\nfelled by industry&#8217;s dire hand;<br \/>\nvillagers replaced by serfs,<br \/>\nage of sinners had arrived.<\/p>\n<p>Within the deepest groves he hid,<br \/>\nnevermore the healing hand<br \/>\nsought the villagers, instead<br \/>\ndrove him roughly from their lands.<\/p>\n<p>Witch and Heretic they cried,<br \/>\ntales were woven, words of fear &#8211;<br \/>\ndeeper hid the sorcerer,<br \/>\nthe age of the machine was near.<\/p>\n<p>Lights shone brightly in the town,<br \/>\njuggernauts of steam and power<br \/>\nscarred the sacred downs and groves,<br \/>\nthe old world faded like a flower.<\/p>\n<p>Years like autumn leaves declined,<br \/>\nempty was the rustic home &#8211;<br \/>\nbereft of magic, wisdom, wit,<br \/>\ndeparted had the Sorcerer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Deep within the forest dim &#8211; in a house that none might find, dwelt the aged sorcerer, stooped his body, dark his mind. Druid of the woodland glades, master of the wind and sun &#8211; healing hand and wisdom&#8217;s voice these mysteries were his alone. Came the villagers to his hearth, counsel gave them and [&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-538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.draigweb.co.uk\/draigweb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/538","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=538"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.draigweb.co.uk\/draigweb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/538\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":570,"href":"https:\/\/www.draigweb.co.uk\/draigweb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/538\/revisions\/570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.draigweb.co.uk\/draigweb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.draigweb.co.uk\/draigweb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.draigweb.co.uk\/draigweb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}