{"id":23614,"date":"2013-12-24T06:30:18","date_gmt":"2013-12-23T17:30:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/?p=23614"},"modified":"2013-12-23T18:47:00","modified_gmt":"2013-12-23T05:47:00","slug":"tuesday-poem-christmastide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2013\/12\/24\/tuesday-poem-christmastide\/","title":{"rendered":"Tuesday Poem: Christmastide"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2013\/12\/24\/tuesday-poem-christmastide\/hakatere-nov13-439a\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-23617\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-23617\" title=\"Hakatere, Nov13 439a\" src=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Hakatere-Nov13-439a-300x224.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" srcset=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Hakatere-Nov13-439a-300x224.jpg 300w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Hakatere-Nov13-439a-150x112.jpg 150w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Hakatere-Nov13-439a.jpg 615w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Christmastide<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Christmas\u2014and we<br \/>\nlike so many others<br \/>\nare washed north<br \/>\non a tide of summer,<br \/>\nour route signposted<br \/>\nby pohutakawa,<br \/>\nall flowering late<br \/>\nagainst a mirage<br \/>\nof cabbage trees,<br \/>\ndusty in the heat<br \/>\nthat shimmers<br \/>\nabove melting tar\u2014<br \/>\nthe whole country baking<br \/>\nas the nation makes<br \/>\nits annual pilgrimage<br \/>\nof Christmas and New Year:<br \/>\nGood to see ya, we say,<br \/>\nor simply mate, pouring out<br \/>\na cool one before we sit<br \/>\ndown together, buoyant<br \/>\nwith the sunshine<br \/>\nand the colour,<br \/>\nthe high tide of summer.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a9 Helen Lowe<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2011\/08\/30\/tuesday-poem-enchantress-of-numbers-by-helen-rickerby\/tuespoem\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-7519\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-7519\" title=\"TuesPoem\" src=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/TuesPoem.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"120\" height=\"107\" \/><\/a>To read the featured poem on the <strong>Tuesday Poem Hub<\/strong> and other great poems from fellow Tuesday poets from around the world, click <a href=\"http:\/\/tuesdaypoem.blogspot.com\/\"><strong>here<\/strong><\/a> or on the <strong>Quill<\/strong> <strong>icon <\/strong>in the sidebar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Christmastide Christmas\u2014and we like so many others are washed north on a tide of summer, our route signposted by pohutakawa, all flowering late against a mirage of cabbage trees, dusty in the heat that shimmers above melting tar\u2014 the whole country baking as the nation makes its annual pilgrimage of Christmas and New Year: Good [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23614","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23614"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23614\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23621,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23614\/revisions\/23621"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}