{"id":26811,"date":"2023-11-25T19:55:00","date_gmt":"2023-11-25T19:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/?p=26811"},"modified":"2023-11-27T19:58:23","modified_gmt":"2023-11-27T19:58:23","slug":"arrias-winter-in-the-dismal-swamp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/arrias-winter-in-the-dismal-swamp\/","title":{"rendered":"Arrias: Winter in the Dismal Swamp"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Author&#8217;s Note: Cold and gray here &#8211; winter in the Tidewater &#8211; the dogs are looking for warm spots\u2026<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Arrias.jpg\" width=\"214\" height=\"288\" \/>Cold and gray, a north wind blows,<br \/>\nDry leaves tumble across the yard,<br \/>\nA line of gold marks the dawn,<br \/>\nBut brown and dead the sward.<\/p>\n<p>Turn my back to the wind,<br \/>\nIt\u2019s cold, and hard the bite,<br \/>\nThe dogs hurry to finish their tasks,<br \/>\nThe day grows slowly light.<\/p>\n<p>Hurry inside, it\u2019s warm and calm,<br \/>\nA mug of tea, feed the hounds<br \/>\nTurn up the fire, keep away the cold,<br \/>\nWind still blows, chilling sounds.<\/p>\n<p>Inside now a cheery light,<br \/>\nBut outside gray and brown &#8211; no pomp,<br \/>\nWe\u2019ll stay inside and keep warm,<br \/>\nWinter come to the Dismal Swamp.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2023 Arrias<br \/>\nwww.vicsocotra.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Author&#8217;s Note: Cold and gray here &#8211; winter in the Tidewater &#8211; the dogs are looking for warm spots\u2026 Cold and gray, a north wind blows, Dry leaves tumble across the yard, A line of gold marks the dawn, But brown and dead the sward. Turn my back to the wind, It\u2019s cold, and hard [&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-26811","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arrian"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26811","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=26811"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26811\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26812,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26811\/revisions\/26812"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}