{"id":15979,"date":"2023-12-15T13:30:55","date_gmt":"2023-12-15T13:30:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/the-present\/"},"modified":"2023-12-15T13:30:55","modified_gmt":"2023-12-15T13:30:55","slug":"the-present","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/the-present\/","title":{"rendered":"The Present"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full wp-image-15978\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/3cc4d222172b64d59313a0605c41c4f9.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>The Present<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>by Lisa Kelly<\/em><\/p>\n<p>is very hard to determine <br \/>with any of our senses.<br \/>I am trying to live in its abstract noun \u2013<br \/>a gift as the old joke goes,<br \/>but unwrapping<br \/>the sound of more bombs,<br \/>the rotting under rubble,<br \/>the bitter taste of politicians\u2019 hypocrisy,<br \/>the sights of abject horror<br \/>touched upon in news reports <br \/>make the past or future, abstract nouns<br \/>we might live in more easily.<\/p>\n<p>I have put up the Christmas tree.<br \/>I have draped it in fairy lights,<br \/>and dangled it with decorations<br \/>my children made when they were children.<\/p>\n<p>I like to think that everyone has a past<br \/>that can make it to the future.<br \/>Underneath the tree, not one present \u2013<br \/>just fallen pine needles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Present by Lisa Kelly is very hard to determine with any of our senses.I am trying to live in its abstract noun \u2013a gift as the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":516,"featured_media":15978,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1660],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15979","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\/15979","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\/516"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15979"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15979\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15978"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}