{"id":25113,"date":"2022-12-24T19:08:00","date_gmt":"2022-12-24T19:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/?p=25113"},"modified":"2022-12-26T19:09:42","modified_gmt":"2022-12-26T19:09:42","slug":"arrias-and-his-muse-a-christmas-in-verse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/arrias-and-his-muse-a-christmas-in-verse\/","title":{"rendered":"Arrias and His Muse: A Christmas in Verse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-25114\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/122412-arrias-e1672081764928.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"119\" \/><br \/>\n<strong>Sanctuary<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A Siberian beast stalks the high plains,<br \/>\nFrom the mountains the frost giants descend,<br \/>\nScouring the land before them,<br \/>\nIn their storm-blast mighty trees will bend.<\/p>\n<p>Alone on the plain a dacha stands,<br \/>\nProof against the cruelest gale,<br \/>\nThe Master and the Mistress of this house,<br \/>\nSip their cognac, they will prevail.<\/p>\n<p>A cheery fire, a well-thumbed book,<br \/>\nWhile outside the storm grows worse,<br \/>\nHurricane-like gusts thunder past,<br \/>\nInside they calmly converse.<\/p>\n<p>The dacha groans, \u2019tis a fearsome storm<br \/>\nWind howls, deep drifts of Snow,<br \/>\nBut inside the high plains sage is warm,<br \/>\nSanctuary found at Varykino.<\/p>\n<p>Screenshot 2022-12-24 at 8.57.42 AM.png<\/p>\n<p>Christmas Sonnet 2022<\/p>\n<p>The dogs hustle out and then quickly in,<br \/>\nCold winter wind, golden dawn hints of sun,<br \/>\nBack from Church, some much to be done!<br \/>\nThe kitchen\u2019s a mess, now where to begin?<br \/>\nThe Master of the house prepares the beef,<br \/>\nThe good Mistress readies several pies,<br \/>\nA guest arrives, bearing a surprise,<br \/>\nDrops jacket, kicks boots off, What a relief!<br \/>\nWelcome, join in, no formalities observed,<br \/>\nRelax! Just stay inside out of the gale!<br \/>\nJoin in! Chop or dice or tell a good tale,<br \/>\nSoon all is done, Hurrah! Dinner is served!<br \/>\nNow is high time to raise a cup of Cheer,<br \/>\nJoy to all in this house, Christmas is here!<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2022 Arrias<br \/>\nwww.vicsocotra.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sanctuary A Siberian beast stalks the high plains, From the mountains the frost giants descend, Scouring the land before them, In their storm-blast mighty trees will bend. Alone on the plain a dacha stands, Proof against the cruelest gale, The Master and the Mistress of this house, Sip their cognac, they will prevail. A cheery [&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-25113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arrian"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25113","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=25113"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25113\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25115,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25113\/revisions\/25115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}