{"id":616,"date":"2020-10-07T18:44:10","date_gmt":"2020-10-07T17:44:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olioweb.me.uk\/spence\/?page_id=616"},"modified":"2024-08-19T14:33:20","modified_gmt":"2024-08-19T13:33:20","slug":"making-mountains","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/olioweb.me.uk\/spence\/?page_id=616","title":{"rendered":"Making Mountains"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>(The child is father to the man)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>In a cold Bradford bedroom on a winter&#8217;s morning<br \/>\nI lie half awake as the day is dawning.<br \/>\nEiderdown pulled tight up to my chin<br \/>\nlegs forming a mountain, me within.<\/p>\n<p>Imagination runs riot on that winter&#8217;s morn<br \/>\nlying in bed so snug and warm.<br \/>\nI see polar bears sliding down the slope,<br \/>\nchasing skiers, who have no hope.<\/p>\n<p>My heroes in comics and books I&#8217;ve read<br \/>\ncluster around me on my bed.<br \/>\nBiggles and Bader, Rupert Bear.<br \/>\nDick Barton, Just William, all are there.<\/p>\n<p>Now, eighty years on, in another bed<br \/>\nI still make mountains in my head.<br \/>\nI have summited real ones in my time<br \/>\nbut imaginary ones are the best to climb.<\/p>\n<p>I raise my left foot for the Matterhorn,<br \/>\nthen both, and an Alpine ridge is born.<br \/>\nAdding music from my mobile phone<br \/>\nthe mountains dance for me alone.<\/p>\n<p>Such simple pleasures work for me<br \/>\nlinking child and adult, all for free!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/olioweb.me.uk\/spence\/?page_id=84\">NEXT POEM &gt;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><em>(The child is father to the man)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>In a cold Bradford bedroom on a winter&#8217;s morning<br \/>\nI lie half awake as the day is dawning.<br \/>\nEiderdown pulled tight up to my chin<br \/>\nlegs forming a mountain, me within.<\/p>\n<p>Imagination runs riot on that winter&#8217;s morn<br \/>\nlying in bed so snug and warm.<br \/>\nI see&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"margintop-large margintop-xlarge-l clear-both\"><a href=\"https:\/\/olioweb.me.uk\/spence\/?page_id=616#s\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Making Mountains<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-616","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olioweb.me.uk\/spence\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/616","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olioweb.me.uk\/spence\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olioweb.me.uk\/spence\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olioweb.me.uk\/spence\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olioweb.me.uk\/spence\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=616"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/olioweb.me.uk\/spence\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/616\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1241,"href":"https:\/\/olioweb.me.uk\/spence\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/616\/revisions\/1241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olioweb.me.uk\/spence\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}