{"id":26234,"date":"2023-07-27T08:08:00","date_gmt":"2023-07-27T08:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/?p=26234"},"modified":"2023-07-27T20:09:45","modified_gmt":"2023-07-27T20:09:45","slug":"arrias-and-his-muse-dismal-swamp-summer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/arrias-and-his-muse-dismal-swamp-summer\/","title":{"rendered":"Arrias and His Muse: Dismal Swamp Summer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Author&#8217;s Note: My Muse reminds me, amidst all the frenetic handwringing &#8211; it\u2019s summer in the Dismal Swamp, which means it\u2019s hot and wet\u2026<br \/>\n&#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\" \/>Dismal Swamp Summer<\/p>\n<p>The air is warm, thick and wet,<br \/>\nIn a soggy blanket all is cloaked,<br \/>\nJust a minute outside the door<br \/>\nAnd my shirt is completely soaked.<\/p>\n<p>A mist covers all the wood,<br \/>\nA gray fog on all the glass,<br \/>\nA treacly silence o\u2019er the swamp,<br \/>\nThe dew is heavy on the grass.<\/p>\n<p>Up above the sky is clear,<br \/>\nThe shamans say \u201cno rain,\u201d<br \/>\nSo they say every day,<br \/>\nAnd yet still the rains came.<\/p>\n<p>And more will likely come today,<br \/>\nThe thunder plays God\u2019s drummer,<br \/>\nBeating out a familiar theme:<br \/>\nIn the Dismal Swamp it\u2019s summer.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2023 Arrias<br \/>\nhttp:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Author&#8217;s Note: My Muse reminds me, amidst all the frenetic handwringing &#8211; it\u2019s summer in the Dismal Swamp, which means it\u2019s hot and wet\u2026 &#8211; Arrias Dismal Swamp Summer The air is warm, thick and wet, In a soggy blanket all is cloaked, Just a minute outside the door And my shirt is completely soaked. [&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-26234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arrian"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26234","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=26234"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26234\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26236,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26234\/revisions\/26236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}