{"id":24112,"date":"2022-06-21T16:36:00","date_gmt":"2022-06-21T16:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/?p=24112"},"modified":"2022-06-22T16:37:47","modified_gmt":"2022-06-22T16:37:47","slug":"arrias-and-his-muse-summertime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/arrias-and-his-muse-summertime\/","title":{"rendered":"Arrias and His Muse: Summertime"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/arrias_muse1.png\" width=\"214\" height=\"288\" \/>Thick and hot, it clings to me,<br \/>\nI am wrapped up in her arms,<br \/>\nNot a single creature stirs,<br \/>\nI am smothered in her charms.<\/p>\n<p>Lilies, daffodils, azaleas,<br \/>\nAlready bloomed, petals disappear,<br \/>\nFertile land, green, lush,<br \/>\nSaucy, sultry Summer is here.<\/p>\n<p>Just the faintest insect buzz,<br \/>\nElse the silence is most complete,<br \/>\nNot the merest breath of air,<br \/>\nNo movement in this heat.<\/p>\n<p>The air clings like honey,<br \/>\nToo hot even to stay in bed,<br \/>\nA shadow passes over me,<br \/>\nA hawk circles overhead.<\/p>\n<p>The dogs find their own answer,<br \/>\nThey silently seem to agree,<br \/>\nBoth lay in the cool grass,<br \/>\nIn the shade of a maple tree.<\/p>\n<p>I must sit and sip iced tea,<br \/>\nFor reasons truly sublime,<br \/>\nFor now the time has come at last,<br \/>\n\u2019Tis Southern Summertime.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2022 Arrias<br \/>\nwww.vicsocotra.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thick and hot, it clings to me, I am wrapped up in her arms, Not a single creature stirs, I am smothered in her charms. Lilies, daffodils, azaleas, Already bloomed, petals disappear, Fertile land, green, lush, Saucy, sultry Summer is here. Just the faintest insect buzz, Else the silence is most complete, Not the merest [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arrian"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24112","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24112"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24112\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24113,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24112\/revisions\/24113"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}