{"id":24699,"date":"2022-10-19T19:20:00","date_gmt":"2022-10-19T19:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/?p=24699"},"modified":"2022-10-24T19:22:18","modified_gmt":"2022-10-24T19:22:18","slug":"arrias-and-his-muse-winter-comes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/arrias-and-his-muse-winter-comes\/","title":{"rendered":"Arrias and His Muse: Winter Comes?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Author&#8217;s Note: My Muse hit me when I walked the puppies, after reading a few items from the news, the Belgorod, demonstration shots, etc\u2026 took a little while to germinate this morning\u2026<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Arrias<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-24700\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/101922-arrias.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"513\" height=\"308\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/101922-arrias.jpg 513w, https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/101922-arrias-300x180.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/101922-arrias-468x281.jpg 468w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 513px) 100vw, 513px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Winter Comes?<\/p>\n<p>A crescent Moon in a cold blue sky,<br \/>\nA golden glow in the east,<br \/>\nThe Sun is on the rise,<br \/>\nAt Dog Holla time to feed the beasts.<\/p>\n<p>The dogs are frisky, the frost is thick,<br \/>\n\u2019Tis fall but winter seems nigh,<br \/>\nBrown leaves crackle under foot,<br \/>\nI hear a lone screech owl cry.<\/p>\n<p>One lone owl, the crackling leaves,<br \/>\nElse the world is still,<br \/>\nToo cold it seems for early fall,<br \/>\nAnd too soon for winter\u2019s chill.<\/p>\n<p>The news from the world is dark,<br \/>\nIn the distance more war drums,<br \/>\nPerhaps the cold is an omen,<br \/>\nTelling us: \u201cWinter comes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Still we must feed the dogs,<br \/>\nSome coffee and begin the new day,<br \/>\nHope foolish men come to their senses,<br \/>\nAnd for peace we all might pray.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2022 Arrias<br \/>\nwww.vicsocotra.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Author&#8217;s Note: My Muse hit me when I walked the puppies, after reading a few items from the news, the Belgorod, demonstration shots, etc\u2026 took a little while to germinate this morning\u2026 &#8211; Arrias Winter Comes? A crescent Moon in a cold blue sky, A golden glow in the east, The Sun is on the [&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-24699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arrian"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24699","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=24699"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24699\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24701,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24699\/revisions\/24701"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}