{"id":69,"date":"2011-04-12T17:35:19","date_gmt":"2011-04-12T17:35:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8080\/wordpress\/?p=69"},"modified":"2015-05-17T01:41:42","modified_gmt":"2015-05-17T01:41:42","slug":"the-besieged","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oderickson.com\/ode\/the-besieged\/","title":{"rendered":"The Besieged"},"content":{"rendered":"<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-69-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/oderickson.com\/ode\/wp-content\/audio\/TheBesiegedVx3.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/oderickson.com\/ode\/wp-content\/audio\/TheBesiegedVx3.mp3\">https:\/\/oderickson.com\/ode\/wp-content\/audio\/TheBesiegedVx3.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Against the edge-wood I stood five hours;<br \/>\nI stood against the rain-slivers,<br \/>\nagainst the pine-high clouds,<br \/>\nthe edge weather beating among the mountains;<br \/>\nI remembered the song of David, far, like a distant river;<br \/>\nI tried to keep canopy in my own nature,<br \/>\nthe flesh crawl and bone ache like a tent<br \/>\nheld high over, or like the archangel falling forever.<br \/>\nI tried to make small motion of my sense,<br \/>\nthe sense of a clotted stick on the grass<br \/>\nafter worse weather. I stood like Daniel.<br \/>\nNo one came near me though a fat old mother<br \/>\nshaded her eyes. My legs were afraid.<br \/>\nI remembered Anjou and the battle of the rood<br \/>\nand the heavy-thick armour and the hooded head,<br \/>\nand the horn in my mouth called<br \/>\nSpring! O you far lonesome creature,<br \/>\nyou catch-as-catch-can, give us time,<br \/>\ngive us the peace of your time beneath the roots<br \/>\nand leg-weary trunks of the trees,<br \/>\nand the ties of my time and yours,<br \/>\nand oh Spring and all good mother!<br \/>\nGive us the song of the March hare,<br \/>\nthe webbed duck paddling the year,<br \/>\nthe warmth of your hair and your hands near your head.<br \/>\nAgainst the edge-wood I stood five hours,<br \/>\nagainst the black March ferns;<br \/>\nthe smell of the weeds was the rain mother;<br \/>\nI stood against the pine high clouds,<br \/>\nagainst the roots of her building heads;<br \/>\nthrough the edge weather hearing the distant river,<br \/>\nI stood like Roland against the dead.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>https:\/\/oderickson.com\/ode\/wp-content\/audio\/TheBesiegedVx3.mp3 &nbsp; Against the edge-wood I stood five hours; I stood against the rain-slivers, against the pine-high clouds, the edge weather beating among the mountains; I remembered the song of David, far, like a distant river; I tried to keep canopy in my own nature, the flesh crawl and bone ache like a tent held [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poemsofbecoming"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oderickson.com\/ode\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oderickson.com\/ode\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oderickson.com\/ode\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oderickson.com\/ode\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oderickson.com\/ode\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/oderickson.com\/ode\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1896,"href":"https:\/\/oderickson.com\/ode\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69\/revisions\/1896"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oderickson.com\/ode\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oderickson.com\/ode\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oderickson.com\/ode\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}