{"id":1052,"date":"2017-11-30T16:10:35","date_gmt":"2017-11-30T16:10:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olioweb.me.uk\/wordpress_marcus\/?p=1052"},"modified":"2019-09-15T19:29:46","modified_gmt":"2019-09-15T19:29:46","slug":"poem-of-the-month-december-2017-bus-number-thirteen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.olioweb.me.uk\/marcus\/?p=1052","title":{"rendered":"Poem of The Month, December 2017: Bus Number Thirteen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>BUS NUMBER THIRTEEN<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I sent my cat to Koolkerke<br \/>\non a bonny white Number Four.<br \/>\nAnd where do you think it stopped?<br \/>\nAt Misty Van Nevel&#8217;s door.<\/p>\n<p>I wonder how many people<br \/>\ncan see that Gemini Moon<br \/>\nfloating above the Market<br \/>\nlike a peaceful barrage balloon.<\/p>\n<p>My wife in the hands of the doctor,<br \/>\na piece of metal removed.<br \/>\nTwo letters to foreign ladies<br \/>\nby whom my work is approved.<\/p>\n<p>So &#8216;back to the old masquerade&#8217;<br \/>\nas poor old Leonard remarked<br \/>\nin one of those tedious tunes<br \/>\nhe typically mumbled and barked.<\/p>\n<p>Not many clouds in the sky<br \/>\nand most of them painted red<br \/>\nby a rising Scorpio Sun<br \/>\nfrom the House of the Dead.<\/p>\n<p><em>In memory of Laetitia Couldwell,<\/em><br \/>\n<em>the grandmother no-one mentioned.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BUS NUMBER THIRTEEN I sent my cat to Koolkerke on a bonny white Number Four. And where do you think [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1052","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all","category-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.olioweb.me.uk\/marcus\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1052","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.olioweb.me.uk\/marcus\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.olioweb.me.uk\/marcus\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.olioweb.me.uk\/marcus\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.olioweb.me.uk\/marcus\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1052"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.olioweb.me.uk\/marcus\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1052\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.olioweb.me.uk\/marcus\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.olioweb.me.uk\/marcus\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.olioweb.me.uk\/marcus\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}