{"id":550,"date":"2013-07-06T00:17:07","date_gmt":"2013-07-05T23:17:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/draigweb.co.uk\/draigweb\/?p=550"},"modified":"2013-07-06T00:44:24","modified_gmt":"2013-07-05T23:44:24","slug":"juvenilia-part-of-the-song-of-sorrow-a-homage-to-r-e-howards-hyborean-epic-tales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.draigweb.co.uk\/draigweb\/juvenilia-part-of-the-song-of-sorrow-a-homage-to-r-e-howards-hyborean-epic-tales\/","title":{"rendered":"Juvenilia: Part of the &#8216;Song of Sorrow&#8217;  (a homage to R. E. Howard&#8217;s Hyborean epic tales)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lamenting the fall of Ilyrion to the barbarian Picts&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Through night they journeyed by the fiery brand,<br \/>\nWhere adder-haunted swamp and marshes foul<\/p>\n<p>Swallow the fruitful plenty of the land,<br \/>\nThe only voice the restless forest&#8217;s growl.<\/p>\n<p>The warrior&#8217;s eye like silver pierced the gloom,<br \/>\nAs stealthily the silent host crept on &#8211;<\/p>\n<p>Pale shadows long beneath the waxen moon;<br \/>\nCuirass and buckler in the twilight shone.<\/p>\n<p>And then like lightening in the sleepless night,<br \/>\nThe host of Cuned, warlord of the north<\/p>\n<p>Broke through their ranks, the frenzied Pictish might<br \/>\nSmote like an anvil on the brazen hearth&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lamenting the fall of Ilyrion to the barbarian Picts&#8230; Through night they journeyed by the fiery brand, Where adder-haunted swamp and marshes foul Swallow the fruitful plenty of the land, The only voice the restless forest&#8217;s growl. The warrior&#8217;s eye like silver pierced the gloom, As stealthily the silent host crept on &#8211; Pale shadows [&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-550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.draigweb.co.uk\/draigweb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550","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=550"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.draigweb.co.uk\/draigweb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":576,"href":"https:\/\/www.draigweb.co.uk\/draigweb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550\/revisions\/576"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.draigweb.co.uk\/draigweb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.draigweb.co.uk\/draigweb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.draigweb.co.uk\/draigweb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}