{"id":3850,"date":"2012-08-19T15:12:00","date_gmt":"2012-08-19T15:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/2012\/08\/19\/the-poet-sent-most-often\/"},"modified":"2012-08-19T15:12:00","modified_gmt":"2012-08-19T15:12:00","slug":"the-poet-sent-most-often","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/2012\/08\/19\/the-poet-sent-most-often\/","title":{"rendered":"the poet sent most often"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ULTIMATUM by Philip Larkin<\/p>\n<p>But we must build our walls, for what we are<br \/>\nNecessitates it, and we must construct<br \/>\nThe ship to navigate behind them, there.<br \/>\nHopeless to ignore, helpless instruct<br \/>\nFor any term of time beyond the years<br \/>\nThat warn us of the need for emigration:<br \/>\nExploded the ancient saying: Life is yours.<br \/>\nFor on our island is no railway station,<br \/>\nThere are no tickets for the Vale of Peace,<br \/>\nNo docks where trading ships and seagulls pass.<br \/>\nRemember stories you read when a boy<br \/>\n&#8211; The shipwrecked sailor gaining safety by<br \/>\nHis knife, treetrunk, and lianas &#8211; for now<br \/>\nYou must escape, or perish saying no.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ULTIMATUM by Philip Larkin But we must build our walls, for what we are Necessitates it, and we must construct The ship to navigate behind them, there. Hopeless to ignore, helpless instruct For any term of time beyond the years That warn us of the need for emigration: Exploded the ancient saying: Life is yours. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/2012\/08\/19\/the-poet-sent-most-often\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;the poet sent most often&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1722,128],"class_list":["post-3850","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-poem","tag-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3850","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3850"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3850\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}