{"id":627,"date":"2020-10-08T12:17:50","date_gmt":"2020-10-08T11:17:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olioweb.me.uk\/spence\/?page_id=627"},"modified":"2020-10-08T12:46:10","modified_gmt":"2020-10-08T11:46:10","slug":"swallow-nursery","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/olioweb.me.uk\/spence\/?page_id=627","title":{"rendered":"Swallow Nursery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>(for Mike and Andrea, and their swallows)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>They came, swooping over our lawn<br \/>\nspring visitors on a misty dawn.<br \/>\nNeeding a barn, or something more,<br \/>\nthey came to nest by our front door.<\/p>\n<p>Very soon the brood arrived<br \/>\nand all four of them survived.<br \/>\nThen, disaster, striking hard<br \/>\ntipped them out into the yard.<\/p>\n<p>A swift solution found a nest<br \/>\nin Andrea&#8217;s hat, it was the best.<br \/>\nSafely tucked up in a bucket<br \/>\nit proved to be, just the ticket!<\/p>\n<p>The swallow nursery did the trick<br \/>\nall four fledged, it was so quick.<br \/>\nNow flying round the sunny sky<br \/>\nthey built another nest close by.<\/p>\n<p>Next spring it is no surprise that<br \/>\nthe swallows will want another hat!<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>\u00c2\u00a0<\/strong>Keith 6.9.20<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/olioweb.me.uk\/spence\/?page_id=620\">NEXT POEM &gt;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00c2\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><em>(for Mike and Andrea, and their swallows)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>They came, swooping over our lawn<br \/>\nspring visitors on a misty dawn.<br \/>\nNeeding a barn, or something more,<br \/>\nthey came to nest by our front door.<\/p>\n<p>Very soon the brood arrived<br \/>\nand all four of them survived.<br \/>\nThen, disaster, striking hard<br \/>\ntipped them out into the&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"margintop-large margintop-xlarge-l clear-both\"><a href=\"https:\/\/olioweb.me.uk\/spence\/?page_id=627#s\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Swallow Nursery<\/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-627","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olioweb.me.uk\/spence\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/627","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=627"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/olioweb.me.uk\/spence\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/627\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":644,"href":"https:\/\/olioweb.me.uk\/spence\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/627\/revisions\/644"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olioweb.me.uk\/spence\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}