{"id":2542,"date":"2023-04-12T21:20:00","date_gmt":"2023-04-12T21:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.purechocolate.org.uk\/?p=2542"},"modified":"2025-04-03T13:37:54","modified_gmt":"2025-04-03T13:37:54","slug":"the-winters-past","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.purechocolate.org.uk\/?p=2542","title":{"rendered":"The winter&#8217;s past"},"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>A winter&#8217;s tail may yet in spring<br>Be seen upon the wall<br>But mare&#8217;s tail found agathering<br>Where roses should be, all<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The cold icicles of winter<br>have done their work in stone<br>Whilst rootlets in the earth prepared<br>to make their presence known<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And we have felt the icy blast<br>With rain upon the head<br>But hearts with pleasant thoughts were warmed<br>And nothings only said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Now to this day, as long ago,<br>We quickly do repair<br>Another year, the old doth wane,<br>Refresh you with due care!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\"><div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/purechocolate.org.uk\/images\/528.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><sub><sup><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flemingcollection.com\/collection\/search-the-collection\/butterfly-flower-bowling-1912-528\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Butterfly Flower, Bowling<\/a><br>1915 Charles Rennie Mackintosh &#8211; Fleming Collection<\/sup><\/sub><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A winter&#8217;s tail may yet in springBe seen upon the wallBut mare&#8217;s tail found agatheringWhere roses should be, all The cold icicles of winterhave done their work in stoneWhilst rootlets in the earth preparedto make their presence known And we have felt the icy blastWith rain upon the headBut hearts with pleasant thoughts were warmedAnd [&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-2542","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\/2542","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=2542"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.purechocolate.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2542\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2543,"href":"https:\/\/blog.purechocolate.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2542\/revisions\/2543"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.purechocolate.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.purechocolate.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.purechocolate.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}