{"id":24851,"date":"2022-11-18T19:42:00","date_gmt":"2022-11-18T19:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/?p=24851"},"modified":"2022-11-19T19:44:11","modified_gmt":"2022-11-19T19:44:11","slug":"arrias-and-his-muse-winter-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/arrias-and-his-muse-winter-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Arrias and His Muse: Winter Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Author&#8217;s Note: My Muse showed up again this morning\u2026 chilly for mid November\u2026 The puppies had me up and out early, but &#8220;too cold&#8221; to hear any of the birds as my field guide so informed me&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Arrias<\/p>\n<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\" \/>A thick hoar frost, A cold, hard ground,<br \/>\nA thin, bright crescent moon,<br \/>\nFrozen grass crunches under foot,<br \/>\nToo cold to hear the loon.<\/p>\n<p>Winter has come to the Swamp,<br \/>\nThe wood is bare and gray,<br \/>\nAn early winter and a long one?<br \/>\nSpring seems far away.<\/p>\n<p>But the squirrels are busy,<br \/>\nAs are the dogs, searching for new smells,<br \/>\nIn the east first hint of dawn,<br \/>\nA dash of pink and gold pastels.<\/p>\n<p>But too cold, hurry inside,<br \/>\nFrom the kitchen a cheery light,<br \/>\nFeed the dogs, brew some tea,<br \/>\nUsher out the night.<\/p>\n<p>The sun will rise, day will come,<br \/>\nMelt this frost away,<br \/>\nAs I settle in to write,<br \/>\nIn the Swamp on a winter day.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2022 Arrias<br \/>\nwww.vicsocotra.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Author&#8217;s Note: My Muse showed up again this morning\u2026 chilly for mid November\u2026 The puppies had me up and out early, but &#8220;too cold&#8221; to hear any of the birds as my field guide so informed me&#8230; &#8211; Arrias A thick hoar frost, A cold, hard ground, A thin, bright crescent moon, Frozen grass crunches [&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-24851","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arrian"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24851","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=24851"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24851\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24852,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24851\/revisions\/24852"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}