{"id":323,"date":"2009-10-11T15:02:53","date_gmt":"2009-10-11T14:02:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/moyracaldecott.co.uk\/?p=323"},"modified":"2024-01-16T13:37:24","modified_gmt":"2024-01-16T13:37:24","slug":"while-i-was-wasting-the-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moyracaldecott.co.uk\/wdp\/while-i-was-wasting-the-day\/","title":{"rendered":"While I was wasting the day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A poem by Moyra Caldecott, from <em>The Breathless Pause<\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h3>While I was wasting the day<\/h3>\n<p>While I was wasting the day<br \/>\nthe grass was growing,<br \/>\ndaisies opening,<br \/>\nsunflowers<br \/>\npushing up tall stems.<\/p>\n<p>While I was wasting the day<br \/>\nthe bee pushed its way<br \/>\ninto a hundred foxgloves<br \/>\nand went home tired.<\/p>\n<p>Now the light fades.<br \/>\nThe rain wets my hair.<br \/>\nI smell honey suckle and musk rose<br \/>\nand take a deep breath<br \/>\nfor tomorrow.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A poem by Moyra Caldecott, from The Breathless Pause: While I was wasting the day While I was wasting the day the grass was growing, daisies opening, sunflowers pushing up tall stems. While I was wasting the day the bee pushed its way into a hundred foxgloves and went home tired. Now the light fades. [&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-323","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\/323","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=323"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/moyracaldecott.co.uk\/wdp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":445,"href":"https:\/\/moyracaldecott.co.uk\/wdp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323\/revisions\/445"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/moyracaldecott.co.uk\/wdp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moyracaldecott.co.uk\/wdp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moyracaldecott.co.uk\/wdp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}