{"id":6182,"date":"2016-09-14T06:28:18","date_gmt":"2016-09-14T05:28:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/?p=6182"},"modified":"2016-09-14T06:28:18","modified_gmt":"2016-09-14T05:28:18","slug":"in-ancient-day-waylaid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/2016\/09\/14\/in-ancient-day-waylaid\/","title":{"rendered":"in Ancient Day, Waylaid"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>\nThe lit mosaic of the wood<br \/>\nStayed me at the turn of the road<br \/>\nTo stare<br \/>\nAt Autumn standing there<br \/>\nIn Joseph&#8217;s coat; a tree<br \/>\nGolden, and bright, and free<br \/>\nFor head; his feet<br \/>\nIn the rich earth were set.<br \/>\nThe wind<br \/>\nWas tugging blind<br \/>\nAt the fierce rainbow rags, the tattered turban,<br \/>\nUnder a fitful sun.<br \/>\nAmbushed by beauty,<br \/>\nI a new creature, stand in Ancient Day,<br \/>\nWaylaid<br \/>\nAt the turn of the road<br \/>\nBy trees that bleed<br \/>\nAnd fill my eyes with plunder!<br \/>\nIs there no climax then? No ripe-as-thunder<br \/>\nGong<br \/>\nSudden, and strong?<br \/>\nNought to be done<br \/>\nBut only stand and stare and travel on.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p align=\"right\">&#8216;Autumn&#8217;, by Mervyn Peake, written (c. autumn 1937), in <em>Collected Poems<\/em> (2008), <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The lit mosaic of the wood Stayed me at the turn of the road To stare At Autumn standing there In Joseph&#8217;s coat; a tree Golden, and bright, and free For head; his feet In the rich earth were set. The wind Was tugging blind At the fierce rainbow rags, the tattered turban, Under a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quotes"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5KQtW-1BI","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6182"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6182"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6182\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6183,"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6182\/revisions\/6183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}