{"id":2211,"date":"2022-11-21T10:10:02","date_gmt":"2022-11-21T10:10:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/daniel.footstepsbooks.com\/?p=2211"},"modified":"2022-11-21T10:10:02","modified_gmt":"2022-11-21T10:10:02","slug":"watching-the-rain-at-treknow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/daniel.footstepsbooks.com\/index.php\/2022\/11\/21\/watching-the-rain-at-treknow\/","title":{"rendered":"Watching the Rain at Treknow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you ever watch the rain<br \/>\nSweep across a great high plain<br \/>\nOf damp green fields and bent-backward trees,<br \/>\nWhere seagulls\u2019 wings are taut with breeze,<br \/>\nAnd gusts of wind cut you in half<br \/>\nNear a Cornish cow and her soft calf &#8211;<br \/>\nAlmost blown across a field &#8211;<br \/>\nWhere it seems impossible to build<br \/>\nCottages of bleak grey stone<br \/>\nThat become warm home sweet home &#8211;<br \/>\nThen you will know as well as I,<br \/>\nHow the sunset warms the sky<br \/>\nWhen the rain stops and the wind stops &#8211;<br \/>\nAnd an autumn evening drops<br \/>\nDarkness all around &#8211;<br \/>\nAnd there\u2019s never a sound &#8211;<br \/>\nOver the great high plain &#8211;<br \/>\nAll is quiet in West-country lanes &#8211;<br \/>\nOnly the hedgerow high, wild and free &#8211;<br \/>\nHides the horizon and masks the sea &#8211;<br \/>\nThat sends the winds across the plain &#8211;<br \/>\nAnd lets you watch Treknow\u2019s grey rain.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Tintagel, Cornwall<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>From &#8216;Moonlight on Words&#8217; published by FootSteps Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you ever watch the rain Sweep across a great high plain Of damp green fields and bent-backward trees, Where seagulls\u2019 wings are taut with breeze, And gusts of wind cut you in half Near a Cornish cow and her soft calf &#8211; Almost blown across a field &#8211; Where it seems impossible to build&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,4],"tags":[478,650,788],"class_list":["post-2211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry","category-daily","tag-moonlight-on-words","tag-shanne-sands","tag-watching-the-rain-at-treknow"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/daniel.footstepsbooks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2211","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/daniel.footstepsbooks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/daniel.footstepsbooks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.footstepsbooks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.footstepsbooks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2211"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.footstepsbooks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2211\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/daniel.footstepsbooks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.footstepsbooks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.footstepsbooks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}