{"id":98,"date":"2010-01-05T20:45:38","date_gmt":"2010-01-05T19:45:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.literaryconnections.co.uk\/?p=98"},"modified":"2010-04-07T22:28:50","modified_gmt":"2010-04-07T21:28:50","slug":"snow-had-fallen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.literaryconnections.co.uk\/?p=98","title":{"rendered":"Snow had fallen, snow on snow&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.literaryconnections.co.uk\/images\/snow_mixer2.jpg\"  align=\"right\" hspace=\"5\" alt=\"Snow-clad cement mixer, 5 January 2010\"  title=\"Snow-clad cement mixer, 5 January 2010\" \/>Sometimes even a cement mixer can have a certain poetic charm, when it is blanketed under several inches of snow. And so it was this afternoon in our Derbyshire back garden. <\/p>\n<p>As for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.literaryconnections.co.uk\/resources\/Christmas.html#Rossetti\">Christina Rossetti&#8217;s carol<\/a>, it&#8217;s true that<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Earth stood hard as iron,<br \/>\nWater like a stone;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8230; but this &#8216;bleak mid-winter&#8217; isn&#8217;t &#8216;long ago&#8217; but with us for the rest of the week. It&#8217;s a good job the email can get through, as the Royal Mail didn&#8217;t!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The big freeze has its picturesque side<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[18,17],"class_list":["post-98","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry","tag-christmas","tag-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.literaryconnections.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.literaryconnections.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.literaryconnections.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.literaryconnections.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.literaryconnections.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=98"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/blog.literaryconnections.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":148,"href":"http:\/\/blog.literaryconnections.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98\/revisions\/148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.literaryconnections.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=98"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.literaryconnections.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=98"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.literaryconnections.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=98"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}