{"id":26645,"date":"2021-01-18T18:14:44","date_gmt":"2021-01-18T18:14:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=26645"},"modified":"2021-01-18T18:14:44","modified_gmt":"2021-01-18T18:14:44","slug":"abingdon-acrostic-poem-for-our-town","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=26645","title":{"rendered":"Abingdon (acrostic poem for our town)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag21\/21011801.jpg\" alt=\"Poems about Abingdon\" \/><br \/>\nAlone I wander by the Thames<br \/>\nbeside the Anchor inn and<br \/>\nin the space between deep<br \/>\nnight and effervescent break of day<br \/>\nghostly and grey<br \/>\ndawn the shadows of Brick Alley<br \/>\nover the broad flags<br \/>\nnext to St Helen\u2019s church.<\/p>\n<p>Across the river<br \/>\nbirdsong greets the dawn,<br \/>\nindifferent to my solitude,<br \/>\nneeding only small<br \/>\nglimmerings of light<br \/>\ndappling pearlescent water to<br \/>\norchestrate yet one more time<br \/>\nnew life in Abingdon.<\/p>\n<p>Paul Sheppy<br \/>\n2021<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to Paul for an entry. A book of poems with pictures will be produced in the autumn &#8211; to be called <em>Ten Poems About Abingdon<\/em>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alone I wander by the Thames beside the Anchor inn and in the space between deep night and effervescent break of day ghostly and grey dawn the shadows of Brick Alley over the broad flags next to St Helen\u2019s church. Across the river birdsong greets the dawn, indifferent to my solitude, needing only small glimmerings [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[176],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poems-about-abingdon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26645","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=26645"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26645\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}