{"id":2308,"date":"2018-11-08T13:03:51","date_gmt":"2018-11-08T13:03:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/andyjohnson.uk\/?p=2308"},"modified":"2023-07-29T20:40:05","modified_gmt":"2023-07-29T19:40:05","slug":"poem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/andyjohnson.uk\/blog\/2018\/11\/08\/poem\/","title":{"rendered":"Poem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A couple of years ago, in response to a challenge from one of my children, I wrote a poem. It&#8217;s not a good poem, and even a <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Vogon#Poetry\">Vogon<\/a> would be embarrassed by it. But nevertheless, a poem it is. A while back I found it tucked inside a book and, since there is unlikely to be a follow-up, immediately thought I should expose myself to ridicule by posting it here. It&#8217;s <em>really<\/em> bad.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2309\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2309\" style=\"width: 365px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-2309\" src=\"https:\/\/andyjohnson.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/IMG_20181013_151427483-224x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"365\" height=\"489\" srcset=\"https:\/\/andyjohnson.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/IMG_20181013_151427483-224x300.jpg 224w, https:\/\/andyjohnson.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/IMG_20181013_151427483-768x1029.jpg 768w, https:\/\/andyjohnson.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/IMG_20181013_151427483-765x1024.jpg 765w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 365px) 85vw, 365px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2309\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Poem<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>For those who can&#8217;t read my writing:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left:30px;\"><em>Plato, in the cave,<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left:30px;\"><em>Watches the firelight shadows dance.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left:30px;\"><em>And dreams of Wittgenstein<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left:30px;\"><em>In the trenches<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left:30px;\"><em>Lit by flickering phosphorus flares.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left:30px;\"><em>Neither of us know what any of this means,<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left:30px;\"><em>Do we?<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left:30px;\"><em>No, he says, but at least<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left:30px;\"><em>We tried<\/em><\/p>\n<p>See?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A couple of years ago, in response to a challenge from one of my children, I wrote a poem. It&#8217;s not a good poem, and even a Vogon would be embarrassed by it. But nevertheless, a poem it is. A while back I found it tucked inside a book and, since there is unlikely to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/andyjohnson.uk\/blog\/2018\/11\/08\/poem\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Poem&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[23],"class_list":["post-2308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","tag-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/andyjohnson.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2308","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/andyjohnson.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/andyjohnson.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"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=2308"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/andyjohnson.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2308\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2701,"href":"https:\/\/andyjohnson.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2308\/revisions\/2701"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/andyjohnson.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andyjohnson.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andyjohnson.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}