{"id":31641,"date":"2025-04-01T08:01:00","date_gmt":"2025-04-01T08:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/?p=31641"},"modified":"2025-04-01T20:03:46","modified_gmt":"2025-04-01T20:03:46","slug":"arrias-and-his-muse-spring-storm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/arrias-and-his-muse-spring-storm\/","title":{"rendered":"Arrias and His Muse: Spring Storm"},"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\" \/>His Muse tickled his fingertips as the word of the storm came in. \u201cA foot of rain in a couple days.\u201d Morning, Fools! Welcome, April!<\/p>\n<p>Spring Storm<\/p>\n<p>The rain begins to fall<\/p>\n<p>Heavy drops on the window pane,<\/p>\n<p>Black clouds in a flat black sky,<\/p>\n<p>A flash of lightning again.<\/p>\n<p>A spring storm has come to the Wood,<\/p>\n<p>Feel the moisture, smell the rain,<\/p>\n<p>A distant rumble of thunder,<\/p>\n<p>The air sizzles and pops like champagne.<\/p>\n<p>More drops now, falling faster,<\/p>\n<p>The puppies gather near,<\/p>\n<p>Another flash, another rumble,<\/p>\n<p>It is now that time of year.<\/p>\n<p>At my desk, they huddle close,<\/p>\n<p>Behind a fortress of books and maps,<\/p>\n<p>A finger or two of scotch while I read,<br \/>\nThe puppies take a nap.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2025 Arrias<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>His Muse tickled his fingertips as the word of the storm came in. \u201cA foot of rain in a couple days.\u201d Morning, Fools! Welcome, April! Spring Storm The rain begins to fall Heavy drops on the window pane, Black clouds in a flat black sky, A flash of lightning again. A spring storm has come [&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-31641","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arrian"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31641","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=31641"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31641\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31643,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31641\/revisions\/31643"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}