{"id":16446,"date":"2024-03-14T10:36:34","date_gmt":"2024-03-14T10:36:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/garden-walls\/"},"modified":"2024-03-14T10:36:34","modified_gmt":"2024-03-14T10:36:34","slug":"garden-walls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/garden-walls\/","title":{"rendered":"Garden Walls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full wp-image-16440\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/9c730c88bba2903bb34838b8f78a4ee9.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"853\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/9c730c88bba2903bb34838b8f78a4ee9.jpg 1280w, http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/9c730c88bba2903bb34838b8f78a4ee9-600x400.jpg 600w, http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/9c730c88bba2903bb34838b8f78a4ee9-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/9c730c88bba2903bb34838b8f78a4ee9-441x294.jpg 441w, http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/9c730c88bba2903bb34838b8f78a4ee9-768x512.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/9c730c88bba2903bb34838b8f78a4ee9-1x1.jpg 1w, http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/9c730c88bba2903bb34838b8f78a4ee9-10x7.jpg 10w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>Garden walls<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>by Simon Haines<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Surround garden walls<br \/>shield from worlds<br \/>to grow flower meadows and vegetables<br \/>wholesomely in rich soil.<\/p>\n<p>But no protection from sniper fire<br \/>nor deafening kettled screams<br \/>nor whimpering newly orphaned<br \/>nor whistling shells<br \/>nor grumbling rumbling tanks <br \/>whose diesel fumes attack lungs<br \/>nor reeking flesh from bombsite homes<br \/>nor boasting bully oppressors.<\/p>\n<p>We hide behind porous walls<br \/>toiling Monday to Friday<br \/>gardening Saturday <br \/>churching Sunday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Garden walls by Simon Haines Surround garden wallsshield from worldsto grow flower meadows and vegetableswholesomely in rich soil. But no protection from sniper firenor deafening kettled screamsnor&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":691,"featured_media":16440,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1660],"tags":[2884],"class_list":["post-16446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-poetry-2","tag-genocide-in-gaza"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16446","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\/691"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16446"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16446\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}