{"id":12956,"date":"2019-05-15T16:20:44","date_gmt":"2019-05-15T15:20:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/green-shadows\/"},"modified":"2019-05-15T16:20:44","modified_gmt":"2019-05-15T15:20:44","slug":"green-shadows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/green-shadows\/","title":{"rendered":"Green Shadows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full wp-image-12954\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/a82521355ffa5d7455a02ef1e9aeb10d.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"280\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/a82521355ffa5d7455a02ef1e9aeb10d.jpg 280w, http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/a82521355ffa5d7455a02ef1e9aeb10d-210x300.jpg 210w, http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/a82521355ffa5d7455a02ef1e9aeb10d-1x1.jpg 1w, http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/a82521355ffa5d7455a02ef1e9aeb10d-7x10.jpg 7w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 280px) 100vw, 280px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>Green Shadows<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>by William Hershaw<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Poor old Johnny Clare!<br \/>Driven mad by Society, protected by Poetry,<br \/>Flapping like an owl, daftman on the road<br \/>Between London and The Bluebell Inn.<br \/>You\u2019d grown up with the birds<br \/>And knew their language off pat.<br \/>Even in the asylum of age<br \/>The Corncrake and Ring Ouzel<br \/>Were bringing you news:<br \/>How Keats had ransacked the hedgerows<br \/>For symbols and metaphors, <br \/>How Byron had bird-limed the coppice.<br \/>Crazy as a king, wits fragile as eggshells by then<br \/>Yet you told them you\u2019d guard the shrinking field edge,<br \/>Watch the turnpike for Trevithick\u2019s sooty reek until<br \/>They could fly away into folksong.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Green Shadows by William Hershaw Poor old Johnny Clare!Driven mad by Society, protected by Poetry,Flapping like an owl, daftman on the roadBetween London and The Bluebell Inn.You\u2019d&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":517,"featured_media":12954,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1660],"tags":[2265,2263,2264],"class_list":["post-12956","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-poetry-2","tag-byron","tag-clare","tag-keats"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12956","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/517"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12956"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12956\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12954"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}