{"id":13854,"date":"2021-02-14T14:30:05","date_gmt":"2021-02-14T14:30:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/secular-icon\/"},"modified":"2021-02-14T14:30:05","modified_gmt":"2021-02-14T14:30:05","slug":"secular-icon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/secular-icon\/","title":{"rendered":"Secular Icon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full wp-image-13852\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/82e69f2bbd1948a1da1f4dfafd94ad3c.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"270\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/82e69f2bbd1948a1da1f4dfafd94ad3c.jpg 270w, http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/82e69f2bbd1948a1da1f4dfafd94ad3c-225x300.jpg 225w, http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/82e69f2bbd1948a1da1f4dfafd94ad3c-1x1.jpg 1w, http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/82e69f2bbd1948a1da1f4dfafd94ad3c-8x10.jpg 8w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 270px) 100vw, 270px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>Secular Icon<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>by Tom Hubbard<\/em><\/p>\n<p>They heard that he was \u2018something in the City\u2019<br \/>And wore nice suits. The ideal son-in-law.<br \/>The thought that he could lord it quite so shitty<br \/>Never occurred. Just worship that firm jaw,<br \/>The measured tones, the wife both rich and pretty;<br \/>He makes his colleagues look and sound so petty,<br \/>They\u2019ve surely put the guff into guffaw \u2013<br \/>While he\u2019ll be crowned at last by Good Queen Betty.<br \/>Yet look, the whole estate\u2019s been sold and bought;<br \/>He\u2019ll join the rest in reeking tedium,<br \/>With crafted platitudes, forever caught<br \/>Between a porn shop and a crematorium.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Secular Icon by Tom Hubbard They heard that he was \u2018something in the City\u2019And wore nice suits. The ideal son-in-law.The thought that he could lord it quite&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":524,"featured_media":13852,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1660],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13854","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-poetry-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13854","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\/524"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13854"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13854\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13852"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}