{"id":942,"date":"2016-10-01T17:25:22","date_gmt":"2016-10-01T17:25:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olioweb.me.uk\/wordpress_marcus\/?p=942"},"modified":"2024-08-19T15:57:50","modified_gmt":"2024-08-19T15:57:50","slug":"poem-of-the-month-october-2016-maan-in-de-stier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.olioweb.me.uk\/marcus\/?p=942","title":{"rendered":"Poem of the Month, October 2016: Maan in de stier"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>MAAN IN DE STIER<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Nepomucenusbrug, 19.09.16.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I had completely<br \/>\nthe wrong idea about Taurus.<br \/>\nI imagined<\/p>\n<p>thick-skinned Spanish bulls<br \/>\ngoring and tossing humans<br \/>\ninsensitively<\/p>\n<p>out of the ring. Unaware<br \/>\nof April with her showers<br \/>\n<em>zoet, <\/em>planet Venus<\/p>\n<p>softening winter&#8217;s blows<br \/>\ninto leaves of tenderest green,<\/p>\n<p>nursing our bodies<br \/>\n(those important parts of us)<br \/>\nwith natural herbs.<\/p>\n<p>Earth, yes! A fixed sign<br \/>\nin this hostile universe<br \/>\nof hastening traffic.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; \u00a0Maria, passing,<br \/>\nphotographs me in the sun,<br \/>\nwriting on the bridge.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MAAN IN DE STIER Nepomucenusbrug, 19.09.16. I had completely the wrong idea about Taurus. I imagined thick-skinned Spanish bulls goring [&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-942","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\/942","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=942"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.olioweb.me.uk\/marcus\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/942\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.olioweb.me.uk\/marcus\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.olioweb.me.uk\/marcus\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.olioweb.me.uk\/marcus\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}