{"id":27375,"date":"2024-03-28T09:08:00","date_gmt":"2024-03-28T09:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/?p=27375"},"modified":"2024-03-28T21:10:00","modified_gmt":"2024-03-28T21:10:00","slug":"arrias-and-his-muse-good-morning-and-weather","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/arrias-and-his-muse-good-morning-and-weather\/","title":{"rendered":"Arrias and His Muse: Good Morning and Weather"},"content":{"rendered":"<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\" \/>Rain is Falling<br \/>\nRain is falling, a constant tapping,<br \/>\nA flash of lightning splits the dark,<br \/>\nThunder rumbles, shakes our house,<br \/>\nThe dogs uneasy, answer with a single bark.<br \/>\nHoly Thursday in the Dismal Swamp,<br \/>\nA good friend and true under the knife,<br \/>\nBypass surgery never routine,<br \/>\nA prayer &#8211; Dear God, safeguard his life.<br \/>\nStill the rain comes down, a soggy earth,<br \/>\nThe sky is dark and drear,<br \/>\nGreen giants out back all wrapped in mist,<br \/>\nIn the darkness runs another deer.<br \/>\nAnother flash, another rumble,<br \/>\nThe rain has eased a bit,<br \/>\nA few minutes quiet, the dogs still alert,<br \/>\nEre the next squall does hit.<br \/>\nAnd so we sit in the dark and worry,<br \/>\nAnother prayer for a friend,<br \/>\nGuide the surgeon Lord, steady hand and eye,<br \/>\nBut in the end on thee we depend.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2024 Arrias<br \/>\nwww.vicsocotra.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rain is Falling Rain is falling, a constant tapping, A flash of lightning splits the dark, Thunder rumbles, shakes our house, The dogs uneasy, answer with a single bark. Holy Thursday in the Dismal Swamp, A good friend and true under the knife, Bypass surgery never routine, A prayer &#8211; Dear God, safeguard his life. [&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-27375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arrian"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27375","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=27375"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27375\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27378,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27375\/revisions\/27378"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}