{"id":3096,"date":"2013-10-04T14:00:58","date_gmt":"2013-10-04T11:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/?p=3096"},"modified":"2013-10-05T10:52:46","modified_gmt":"2013-10-05T07:52:46","slug":"dark-clouds-over-salisbury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/?p=3096","title":{"rendered":"Dark clouds over Salisbury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"images\" href=\"http:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/images.jpg\" rel=\"prettyPhoto-img\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-3097\" alt=\"images\" src=\"http:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/images.jpg\" width=\"259\" height=\"194\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><blockquote class=\"sc-blockquote\">Dark clouds over Salisbury<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The sun stayed low all day.<br \/> Reddening the clouds.<br \/> Blinding me occasionally<br \/> as I turned a corner<br \/> or window shopping,<br \/> caught it\u2019s reflection.<br \/> But the sun brought no warmth.<br \/> It stayed cold and the slush remained.<br \/> Too warm to freeze.<br \/> Too cold to melt.<br \/> The spire threw wide shadows<br \/> down my side of the street.<br \/> Dreary and gloomy<br \/> like the very world was unhappy,<br \/> and knew that I was ready to sell<br \/> my dad\u2019s gold chain.<strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">from the volume <a title=\"Newbury Makar\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Newbury-Makar-John-Black\/dp\/1291511601\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Newbury Makar&#8221;<\/a>,2013<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>John Black<\/blockquote><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3096","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-contemporary-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3096","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3096"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3096\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3099,"href":"https:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3096\/revisions\/3099"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}