{"id":2382,"date":"2025-03-30T00:05:50","date_gmt":"2025-03-30T00:05:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.purechocolate.org.uk\/?p=2382"},"modified":"2025-03-30T00:15:06","modified_gmt":"2025-03-30T00:15:06","slug":"a-song-for-march-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.purechocolate.org.uk\/?p=2382","title":{"rendered":"A song for March 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns are-vertically-aligned-center is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-vertically-aligned-center is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:50%\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table is-style-stripes\"><table class=\"has-fixed-layout\"><tbody><tr><td>In the bleak midwinter days,<br>When frost and wind the ground did cleave,<br>We wandered round in a haze<br>As spiders in their webs did weave.<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The days must close,<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;We must not doze,<br>For springtime soon the air must breathe.<br><br>The springtime comes with a blast<br>Of fiery flowers and florid hues.<br>We know this soon will be past<br>And summer\u2019s sun will then amuse<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The singing lark,<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The children\u2019s park,<br>\u2018Til winter shall its shadow cast.<br><br>Once more rolls the year around,<br>But what is that to you and me?<br>Once we thought it was quite sound<br>But time itself has left to flee,<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Another year<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Ran like the hare<br>To carry love where ere you be.<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-vertically-aligned-center is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:50%\"><div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nhm.ac.uk\/resources\/visit\/wpy\/2012\/large\/webp\/66.webp\" alt=\"\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhm.ac.uk\/wpy\/gallery\/2012-fairy-lake-fir\">Fairy Lake Fir<\/a> \u00a9 Adam Gibbs<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the bleak midwinter days,When frost and wind the ground did cleave,We wandered round in a hazeAs spiders in their webs did weave.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The days must close,&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;We must not doze,For springtime soon the air must breathe. The springtime comes with a blastOf fiery flowers and florid hues.We know this soon will be pastAnd summer\u2019s sun will [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.purechocolate.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2382","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.purechocolate.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.purechocolate.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.purechocolate.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.purechocolate.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2382"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blog.purechocolate.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2382\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2389,"href":"https:\/\/blog.purechocolate.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2382\/revisions\/2389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.purechocolate.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.purechocolate.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.purechocolate.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}