{"id":3178,"date":"2025-11-23T14:58:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-23T14:58:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/andyjohnson.uk\/blog\/?page_id=3178"},"modified":"2026-05-04T21:05:36","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T20:05:36","slug":"we-who-endure","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/andyjohnson.uk\/blog\/writing\/we-who-endure\/","title":{"rendered":"We Who Endure"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>You people forget that we are made of time.<br>While you come and go, in your haste,<br>our skins shelter the memory of seasons.<br>Centuries pass, rains, wash of light on leaf.<br>The planet&#8217;s breath moves through the<br>cathedral spaces of our limbs.<br>We drink of the slow and salted earth<br>down to the bedrock.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In truth, we do not care for your kind.<br>Some of us admire your colours, passingly,<br>in the approved season. <br>But time frightens us <br>and your embodiment of it is unnerving.<br>We resent you your long lives.<br>So we chop and rend you like meat,<br>and then we burn the pieces to ash.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One day soon, we hope, you will all be gone <br>and we will still be here.<br>This is the victory that we desire.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\">By Andrew Johnson, at Blaen-y-Nant, November 2025.<br>Copyright \u00a9 Andrew Johnson 2025, all rights reserved<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You people forget that we are made of time.While you come and go, in your haste,our skins shelter the memory of seasons.Centuries pass, rains, wash of light on leaf.The planet&#8217;s breath moves through thecathedral spaces of our limbs.We drink of the slow and salted earthdown to the bedrock. In truth, we do not care for &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/andyjohnson.uk\/blog\/writing\/we-who-endure\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;We Who Endure&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":2436,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-3178","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/andyjohnson.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3178","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/andyjohnson.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/andyjohnson.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andyjohnson.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andyjohnson.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3178"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/andyjohnson.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3178\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3306,"href":"https:\/\/andyjohnson.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3178\/revisions\/3306"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andyjohnson.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2436"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/andyjohnson.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}