{"id":312,"date":"2009-10-09T14:05:41","date_gmt":"2009-10-09T13:05:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/moyracaldecott.co.uk\/?p=312"},"modified":"2024-01-16T13:37:24","modified_gmt":"2024-01-16T13:37:24","slug":"swan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moyracaldecott.co.uk\/wdp\/swan\/","title":{"rendered":"Swan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A poem by Moyra Caldecott, from <em>The Breathless Pause<\/em>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Leaving the pond<br \/>\nand the gentle water weeds<br \/>\na swan rode the ocean.<br \/>\nAt first,<br \/>\nbecause it was evening<br \/>\nand mirror still,<br \/>\nnot knowing<br \/>\nthe fathoms<br \/>\nof deep and restless currents<br \/>\nstirring beneath<br \/>\nits poised white weight,<br \/>\nit rested easily,<br \/>\non smooth silver.<\/p>\n<p>But then &#8211;<br \/>\nslowly &#8211;<br \/>\nit began to feel<br \/>\nthe pull and tug of the tide,<br \/>\nthe unfamiliar hidden strength<br \/>\nand secret power of the sea.<br \/>\nNo longer resting,<br \/>\nit rode the water<br \/>\nlike a challenge,<br \/>\nrejoiced to feel<br \/>\nthe primal rhythm coursing<br \/>\nin its own small veins.<\/p>\n<p>No longer satisfied<br \/>\nwith pools<br \/>\nof still water,<br \/>\nthe swan rode on,<br \/>\nand never left the sea.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A poem by Moyra Caldecott, from The Breathless Pause. Leaving the pond and the gentle water weeds a swan rode the ocean. At first, because it was evening and mirror still, not knowing the fathoms of deep and restless currents stirring beneath its poised white weight, it rested easily, on smooth silver. But then &#8211; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[44,40],"class_list":{"0":"post-312","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-poetry","7":"tag-poetry","8":"tag-the-breathless-pause"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/moyracaldecott.co.uk\/wdp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/moyracaldecott.co.uk\/wdp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/moyracaldecott.co.uk\/wdp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moyracaldecott.co.uk\/wdp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moyracaldecott.co.uk\/wdp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=312"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/moyracaldecott.co.uk\/wdp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":447,"href":"https:\/\/moyracaldecott.co.uk\/wdp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312\/revisions\/447"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/moyracaldecott.co.uk\/wdp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moyracaldecott.co.uk\/wdp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moyracaldecott.co.uk\/wdp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}