{"id":2540,"date":"2022-08-07T15:51:00","date_gmt":"2022-08-07T15:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.purechocolate.org.uk\/?p=2540"},"modified":"2025-04-03T13:40:02","modified_gmt":"2025-04-03T13:40:02","slug":"as-summer-departs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.purechocolate.org.uk\/?p=2540","title":{"rendered":"As summer departs"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>As summer yields her hidden fruit<br>And autumn cedes her golden charm<br>To winter days and frosty nights;<br>As long hours of aestivation<br>Through equal days of light and dark<br>To long shades of hibernation<br>Do resign; to escrivation<br>My pen does now with will embarque<br>To inscribe for you a meet word<br>To which with good will all shall hark:<br>For in august tones on a summer day<br>The new year&#8217;s ingression shall not inveigh,<br>But rather for your health and good essay.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/purechocolate.org.uk\/images\/s0176V1962.webp\" alt=\"\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vangoghmuseum.nl\/nl\/collectie\/s0176V1962\">Almond Blossom<\/a>, Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam (Vincent van Gogh Foundation)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As summer yields her hidden fruitAnd autumn cedes her golden charmTo winter days and frosty nights;As long hours of aestivationThrough equal days of light and darkTo long shades of hibernationDo resign; to escrivationMy pen does now with will embarqueTo inscribe for you a meet wordTo which with good will all shall hark:For in august tones [&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-2540","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\/2540","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=2540"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.purechocolate.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2540\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2541,"href":"https:\/\/blog.purechocolate.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2540\/revisions\/2541"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.purechocolate.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.purechocolate.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.purechocolate.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}