{"id":14985,"date":"2015-10-08T00:01:47","date_gmt":"2015-10-07T23:01:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=14985"},"modified":"2015-10-08T00:01:47","modified_gmt":"2015-10-07T23:01:47","slug":"written-at-abingdon-assizes-before-nationalpoetryday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=14985","title":{"rendered":"Heart of Stone &#8211; Written in Court at Abingdon Assizes 1823"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag15\/15100701.jpg\" alt=\"Abingdon Assizes\" \/><br \/>\nTo treat thus a Maiden&#8217;s a shame and disgrace;<br \/>\n&#8216;Twas vile to desert her &#8211; unfeeling and base;<br \/>\nYet, what but such conduct could any one hope;<br \/>\n(Not forgiven, I&#8217;m sure, would it be by the Pope)<br \/>\nFrom one, who by evidence clear it is shown,<br \/>\nWas really possessed of THE HEART OF A STONE.<\/p>\n<p>Written in Court at Abingdon Assizes (Abingdon County Hall Sessions Hall) circa 1823, during the trial of a breach of promise of marriage. <\/p>\n<p>Thursday 8 October 2015 is <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PoetryDayUK\">National Poetry Day<\/a>. <i>The day is a chance to break with the tyranny of prose by sharing poetry with the hashtag #nationalpoetryday.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To treat thus a Maiden&#8217;s a shame and disgrace; &#8216;Twas vile to desert her &#8211; unfeeling and base; Yet, what but such conduct could any one hope; (Not forgiven, I&#8217;m sure, would it be by the Pope) From one, who by evidence clear it is shown, Was really possessed of THE HEART OF A STONE. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[121],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14985","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14985","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14985"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14985\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}