{"id":15512,"date":"2023-08-10T08:40:58","date_gmt":"2023-08-10T07:40:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/respite\/"},"modified":"2023-08-10T08:40:58","modified_gmt":"2023-08-10T07:40:58","slug":"respite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/respite\/","title":{"rendered":"Respite"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full wp-image-15507\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/d3023eee2fa640c312cca897bac7e402.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"330\" height=\"248\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/d3023eee2fa640c312cca897bac7e402.jpg 330w, https:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/d3023eee2fa640c312cca897bac7e402-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/d3023eee2fa640c312cca897bac7e402-1x1.jpg 1w, https:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/d3023eee2fa640c312cca897bac7e402-10x8.jpg 10w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 330px) 100vw, 330px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>Respite<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>by Wayne Dean-Richards<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I watch an episode of the original <em>Star Trek<\/em> TV <br \/>series, followed immediately by an episode of<br \/><em>Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads?<\/em> <br \/>followed immediately by an episode of<br \/><em>The Champions<\/em> \u2013 one after the other, <br \/>boom, boom, boom, just like that.<\/p>\n<p>the newest of these shows is fifty years old!<br \/>does that mean I\u2019m on the run, in hiding, this a<br \/>manifestation of a full-blown retreat?<\/p>\n<p>I bloody hope not! <br \/>hope it\u2019s just a pause,<br \/>before battling on<br \/>a brief respite<br \/>to gather strength from a time before<br \/>Thatcher and her madness<br \/>gained such a fucking grip!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Respite by Wayne Dean-Richards I watch an episode of the original Star Trek TV series, followed immediately by an episode ofWhatever Happened to the Likely Lads? followed&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":666,"featured_media":15507,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1660],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15512","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\/15512","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\/666"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15512"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15512\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}