{"id":2470,"date":"2017-10-05T01:32:07","date_gmt":"2017-10-05T01:32:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fatbeetle.com\/blog\/?page_id=2470"},"modified":"2017-10-13T07:24:49","modified_gmt":"2017-10-13T07:24:49","slug":"2470-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.fatbeetle.com\/blog\/?page_id=2470","title":{"rendered":"The waiting game."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fatbeetle.com\/galleries\/sennen%2015\/pordenack%20.jpg\" alt=\"pordenack \" \/><\/p>\n<p>The chill morning reaches through my fog,<br \/>\non the air, the scent of distant rain.<br \/>\nHappily clad in sheltering clothes<br \/>\nwe set off.<\/p>\n<p>Along the track, styles and gates,<br \/>\nto where a thin brown line,<br \/>\ngrants permission<br \/>\nto cross the field.<\/p>\n<p>The valley top, gorse hedged path.<br \/>\nwater in the brook below rushed<br \/>\nAtop the hill, look down, the sea,<br \/>\npause awhile.<\/p>\n<p>Steep and gravelled, but descend we must.<br \/>\nTo turn left at the coast path,<br \/>\nwhere a kinder person, has built<br \/>\nladders to the beach.<\/p>\n<p>There at the song of the sea,<br \/>\nrest awhile. Let the sandy boys<br \/>\nplay their fighting games,<br \/>\nof child\u2019s play war.<\/p>\n<p>Across the rocks to the song of the sea<br \/>\nThe mussel pool, foraged,<br \/>\na thought to fish for supper<br \/>\nbut no.<\/p>\n<p>Inevitably, distant rain encroaches,<br \/>\ngrey headed clouds, with<br \/>\ndrizzle on the breeze,<br \/>\nThe wind picks up<\/p>\n<p>A shortened day, call off<br \/>\nthe dogs, and stumble back.<br \/>\nHappy to go home,<br \/>\nour way again.<\/p>\n<p>This day will come.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The chill morning reaches through my fog, on the air, the scent of distant rain. Happily clad in sheltering clothes we set off. Along the track, styles and gates, to where a thin brown line, grants permission to cross the &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fatbeetle.com\/blog\/?page_id=2470\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":1849,"menu_order":41,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2470","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fatbeetle.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2470","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=2470"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.fatbeetle.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2470\/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=2470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}