{"id":3447,"date":"2008-01-10T22:55:06","date_gmt":"2008-01-11T03:55:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/10\/poem\/"},"modified":"2008-01-10T22:55:06","modified_gmt":"2008-01-11T03:55:06","slug":"poem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/10\/poem\/","title":{"rendered":"poem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The Mower<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The mower stalled, twice; kneeling, I found<br \/>\nA hedgehog jammed up against the blades,<br \/>\nKilled. It had been in the long grass.<\/p>\n<p>I had seen it before, and even fed it, once.<br \/>\nNow I had mauled its unobtrusive world<br \/>\nUnmendably. Burial was no help:<\/p>\n<p>Next morning I got up and it did not.<br \/>\nThe first day after a death, the new absence<br \/>\nIs always the same; we should be careful<\/p>\n<p>Of each other, we should be kind<br \/>\nWhile there is still time.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u201d\u00c2\u00a0 <em>Philip Larkin<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Mower The mower stalled, twice; kneeling, I found A hedgehog jammed up against the blades, Killed. It had been in the long grass. I had seen it before, and even fed it, once. Now I had mauled its unobtrusive world Unmendably. Burial was no help: Next morning I got up and it did not. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[17],"tags":[1072,226],"class_list":["post-3447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","tag-larkin","tag-poem"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/sQNZZ-poem","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3447","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3447"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3447\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}