{"id":6791,"date":"2016-10-06T06:51:11","date_gmt":"2016-10-06T06:51:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/?p=6791"},"modified":"2016-10-06T06:51:11","modified_gmt":"2016-10-06T06:51:11","slug":"adelstrop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/2016\/10\/06\/adelstrop\/","title":{"rendered":"Adelstrop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It's National Poetry Day today, although everyday should be that, I think. \u00a0Here's my contribution: Edward Thomas's evocative\u00a0<em>Adelstrop<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Yes, I remember Adlestrop --<br \/>\nThe name, because one afternoon<br \/>\nOf heat the express-train drew up there<br \/>\nUnwontedly. It was late June.<\/p>\n<p>The steam hissed. Someone cleared his throat.<br \/>\nNo one left and no one came<br \/>\nOn the bare platform. What I saw<br \/>\nWas Adlestrop -- only the name<\/p>\n<p>And willows, willow-herb, and grass,<br \/>\nAnd meadowsweet, and haycocks dry,<br \/>\nNo whit less still and lonely fair<br \/>\nThan the high cloudlets in the sky.<\/p>\n<p>And for that minute a blackbird sang<br \/>\nClose by, and round him, mistier,<br \/>\nFarther and farther, all the birds<br \/>\nOf Oxfordshire and Gloucestershire.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It's National Poetry Day today, although everyday should be that, I think. \u00a0Here's my contribution: Edward Thomas's evocative\u00a0Adelstrop Yes, I remember Adlestrop -- The name, because one afternoon Of heat the express-train drew up there Unwontedly. It was late June....<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":237,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6791","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comment","category-news-and-updates"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6791","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/237"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6791"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6791\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}