{"id":15348,"date":"2023-06-12T07:24:09","date_gmt":"2023-06-12T06:24:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/the-colossus-of-snide\/"},"modified":"2023-06-12T07:24:09","modified_gmt":"2023-06-12T06:24:09","slug":"the-colossus-of-snide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/the-colossus-of-snide\/","title":{"rendered":"The Colossus of Snide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full wp-image-15342\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/1f6dd5aa012fb4885c61f13c14c08e27.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/1f6dd5aa012fb4885c61f13c14c08e27.jpg 1920w, https:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/1f6dd5aa012fb4885c61f13c14c08e27-600x338.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/1f6dd5aa012fb4885c61f13c14c08e27-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/1f6dd5aa012fb4885c61f13c14c08e27-441x248.jpg 441w, https:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/1f6dd5aa012fb4885c61f13c14c08e27-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/1f6dd5aa012fb4885c61f13c14c08e27-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/1f6dd5aa012fb4885c61f13c14c08e27-1x1.jpg 1w, https:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/1f6dd5aa012fb4885c61f13c14c08e27-10x6.jpg 10w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>The Colossus of Snide<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>by James O&#8217;Brien<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Feet planted on pilings too small to bear the weight,<br \/>The sunken god fell, contradicted by the elements,<br \/>The mournful plaintiff soon vanquished a heresy,<br \/>A coddling joke left half distilled like an ethanol drip,<br \/>Too paltry for reverie, too insipid for debauch.<br \/>How your works mock you, Jokerman, a lost cabal,<br \/>A grievous haunting, you ratted out the denizens in bronze,<br \/>It was pained plaster painted, crumbling to the touch,<br \/>Dissolved in water, a sickly paste of deceit,<br \/>Like the stench of cheese rot riddled with vivid decay.<br \/>Helios humiliated by the Wizard of Oz.<br \/>A vast, seething emptiness silted up the harbour,<br \/>The lying, vacuous clown, cried love me for my works,<br \/>Tinkers removed an alloy of scrap. Nada. Nada. Nada.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Colossus of Snide by James O&#8217;Brien Feet planted on pilings too small to bear the weight,The sunken god fell, contradicted by the elements,The mournful plaintiff soon&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":660,"featured_media":15342,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1660],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-poetry-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15348","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/660"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15348"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15348\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}