{"id":2666,"date":"2016-09-27T15:43:18","date_gmt":"2016-09-27T15:43:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.marriages.me.uk\/alwyn\/?page_id=2666"},"modified":"2017-02-22T19:42:46","modified_gmt":"2017-02-22T19:42:46","slug":"clapper-boards","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.marriages.me.uk\/alwyn\/writing\/poetry\/clapper-boards\/","title":{"rendered":"Clapper boards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000\"><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica,sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size: small\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman,sans-serif\"><span lang=\"en-GB\"><i>after Cape Cod Morning by Edward Hopper<\/i><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\"><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica,sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size: small\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman,sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size: medium\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman,sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size: medium\"><span lang=\"en-GB\">It took twenty years or more<\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman,sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size: medium\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman,sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size: medium\"><span lang=\"en-GB\">before the trees gave up their souls<br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman,sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size: medium\"><span lang=\"en-GB\">and bodies to the woodcutter.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman,sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size: medium\"><span lang=\"en-GB\">Summer, autumn, winter and spring<\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman,sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size: medium\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman,sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size: medium\"><span lang=\"en-GB\">seasoned the sappy wood before<\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman,sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size: medium\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman,sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size: medium\"><span lang=\"en-GB\">they cut it into boards<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman,sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size: medium\"><span lang=\"en-GB\">to build the house and paint it white,<\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman,sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size: medium\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman,sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size: medium\"><span lang=\"en-GB\">catching the light which seemed to fall<\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman,sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size: medium\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman,sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size: medium\"><span lang=\"en-GB\">sideways on her waiting face<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman,sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size: medium\"><span lang=\"en-GB\">as she stood for hours in the place<\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman,sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size: medium\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman,sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size: medium\"><span lang=\"en-GB\">where she could watch<\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman,sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size: medium\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman,sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size: medium\"><span lang=\"en-GB\">the ever-empty sea.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"RIGHT\"><a name=\"_GoBack\"><\/a> <span style=\"color: #000000\"><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica,sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size: small\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman,sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size: medium\">commended in the Poetry Society Stanza competition, autumn 2014<br \/>\nPublished in \u2018Wordstrokes\u2019: The Poetry of Art, 2015<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>after Cape Cod Morning by Edward Hopper It took twenty years or more before the trees gave up their souls and bodies to the woodcutter. Summer, autumn, winter and spring seasoned the sappy wood before they cut it into boards to build the house and paint it white, catching the&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.marriages.me.uk\/alwyn\/writing\/poetry\/clapper-boards\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Clapper boards<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":1982,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2666","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","entry"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marriages.me.uk\/alwyn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2666","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marriages.me.uk\/alwyn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marriages.me.uk\/alwyn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marriages.me.uk\/alwyn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marriages.me.uk\/alwyn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2666"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.marriages.me.uk\/alwyn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2666\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2789,"href":"https:\/\/www.marriages.me.uk\/alwyn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2666\/revisions\/2789"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marriages.me.uk\/alwyn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marriages.me.uk\/alwyn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}