{"id":2774,"date":"2024-08-16T13:07:06","date_gmt":"2024-08-16T13:07:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/daniel.footstepsbooks.com\/?p=2774"},"modified":"2024-08-16T13:07:06","modified_gmt":"2024-08-16T13:07:06","slug":"innocence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/daniel.footstepsbooks.com\/index.php\/2024\/08\/16\/innocence\/","title":{"rendered":"Innocence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Innocence<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Our innocence was kept in a blue vase &#8211;<br \/>\nHolding chrysanthemums with heavy heads &#8211;<br \/>\nOr over gas fires making toast and reading Flecker<br \/>\nOr lying on narrow beds comfortable with happiness &#8211;<br \/>\nBooks littered with petals and \u2018notes\u2019<br \/>\nAbout coming \u2018home\u2019 late &#8211;<br \/>\nPiping a recorder in the dusk of that autumn,<br \/>\nWhen words spun to the ground with united pleasure &#8211;<br \/>\nOnly the flowers fell one by one &#8211;<br \/>\nThe words were never weak &#8211;<br \/>\nOnly the autumn\u2019s changed from then till now;<br \/>\nAs vases hold other flowers and our innocence<br \/>\nIs no longer found within their blueness<br \/>\nOn a high mantelpiece,<br \/>\nBut is a piece of jagged glass<br \/>\nBroken yet still beautiful &#8211;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Sh\u00e4nne Sands, from the selection Night Song<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Innocence &nbsp; Our innocence was kept in a blue vase &#8211; Holding chrysanthemums with heavy heads &#8211; Or over gas fires making toast and reading Flecker Or lying on narrow beds comfortable with happiness &#8211; Books littered with petals and \u2018notes\u2019 About coming \u2018home\u2019 late &#8211; Piping a recorder in the dusk of that autumn,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[999,650],"class_list":["post-2774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily","tag-innocence","tag-shanne-sands"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/daniel.footstepsbooks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2774","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.footstepsbooks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2774"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.footstepsbooks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2774\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2775,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.footstepsbooks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2774\/revisions\/2775"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/daniel.footstepsbooks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.footstepsbooks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.footstepsbooks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}