{"id":95607,"date":"2021-06-26T18:36:12","date_gmt":"2021-06-26T22:36:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=95607"},"modified":"2021-06-26T18:36:12","modified_gmt":"2021-06-26T22:36:12","slug":"x-amid-the-winter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/x-amid-the-winter\/","title":{"rendered":"X. Amid the Winter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Amid the Winter<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>It is likely that the winter wind,<\/p>\n<p>wending \u2018round the windows again,<\/p>\n<p>will whine and whistle, with a moose-like moan,<\/p>\n<p>all spike and thistle, with spiny groan.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>And then in haste, will whistle away,<\/p>\n<p>dust dairy and dinghy on a snowy day.<\/p>\n<p>frost, and frigid, brittle with bite,<\/p>\n<p>especially on a starlit night,<\/p>\n<p>when the worst of weather howls like wolves,<\/p>\n<p>stampedes through the pass, on thunderous hooves,<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>tells lies to the spruce, the juniper, pine,<\/p>\n<p>huddled like old men, bent in decline,<\/p>\n<p>whose green-wooly overcoats shudder with snow,<\/p>\n<p>sun-warmth forgotten amid the blow.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>As over the hill, in the valley below,<\/p>\n<p>Jingle bells ring and Yule logs glow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amid the Winter &nbsp; It is likely that the winter wind, wending \u2018round the windows again, will whine and whistle, with a moose-like moan, all spike and thistle, with spiny groan. &nbsp; And then in haste, will whistle away, dust dairy and dinghy on a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":564,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-95607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95607","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\/564"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=95607"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95607\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":95631,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95607\/revisions\/95631"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}