{"id":1605,"date":"2015-02-12T06:20:43","date_gmt":"2015-02-12T06:20:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fatbeetle.com\/blog\/?page_id=1605"},"modified":"2015-08-15T00:36:43","modified_gmt":"2015-08-15T00:36:43","slug":"bench-tor","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.fatbeetle.com\/blog\/?page_id=1605","title":{"rendered":"Bench Tor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ukclimbing.com\/images\/dbpage.html?id=192462\">Nothing here, but still, the view<\/a>.<br \/>\nThe wind in the grasses,<br \/>\nthe rush of the brook.<br \/>\nPebbles in the stream,<br \/>\nof the high sided valley.<br \/>\nThe proud prow of Bench Tor.<br \/>\nBut again, it matters, somehow.<br \/>\nThe way of these things,<br \/>\nstood there, the view excels.<br \/>\nDotted about the horizon,<br \/>\nsoft hills, other sides to a tale.<br \/>\nRed bracken, green gorse,<br \/>\nivy, all cling a way I never could.<br \/>\nI know this place hardly at all,<br \/>\nbut in the image I find myself lost.<br \/>\nIn the past, in myself.<br \/>\nI feel the sharp abrasiveness,<br \/>\nsilent, cutting, cold.<br \/>\nA\u00a0setting son.<br \/>\nExpedited into my past.<br \/>\nto a\u00a0place I\u2019ve mythologised.<br \/>\nWhat meaning is there in a photo,<br \/>\ntaken by someone, who I do not know,<br \/>\nof a time, when I was not there?<br \/>\nWhat hope is there in a place so far away,<br \/>\nwhat sustains this impression?<br \/>\nWhy do I return, when<br \/>\nI know I can never go back.<br \/>\nBut still,\u00a0I can.<br \/>\nAnd I do.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nothing here, but still, the view. The wind in the grasses, the rush of the brook. Pebbles in the stream, of the high sided valley. The proud prow of Bench Tor. But again, it matters, somehow. The way of these &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fatbeetle.com\/blog\/?page_id=1605\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":1849,"menu_order":25,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1605","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fatbeetle.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1605","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fatbeetle.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fatbeetle.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fatbeetle.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fatbeetle.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1605"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.fatbeetle.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1605\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fatbeetle.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fatbeetle.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}