{"id":2887,"date":"2014-08-23T18:36:18","date_gmt":"2014-08-23T22:36:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=2887"},"modified":"2014-08-25T05:18:32","modified_gmt":"2014-08-25T09:18:32","slug":"malvern-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2014\/08\/malvern-home\/","title":{"rendered":"Malvern: Home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Malvern Hills rise suddenly out of the stretching plains of the three counties,<\/p>\n<p>Thirty miles long and humped like a prehistoric beast. They hold my eyes transfixed and bring imaginings to my mind:<\/p>\n<p>One fancies the panoramic view from the back of a fire-breather, swifting over the land and alighting upon his destination.<\/p>\n<p>A beacon burns on the Herefordshire summit to welcome him home with his quarry. But I have not been snatched for food or ransom.<\/p>\n<p>I have been sought- a chosen one, graced with the skill to defend this part of the world from its would-be ruin.<\/p>\n<p>For as long as I am held in the bastion, forged by the Earth\u2019s great fault, the orchard apples will still be the sweetest in all the land.<\/p>\n<p>A by-product of the spirit within me. An energy born of the love for my home- for my familial ties which I would perish to defend, even when, owing to my unnatural longevity, I\u2019m only defending a memory.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Malvern Hills rise suddenly out of the stretching plains of the three counties, Thirty miles long and humped like a prehistoric beast. They hold my eyes transfixed and bring imaginings to my mind: One fancies the panoramic view from the back of a fire-breather,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":43,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2887","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2887","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/43"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2887"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2887\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4737,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2887\/revisions\/4737"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}