{"id":786,"date":"2021-01-16T11:56:59","date_gmt":"2021-01-16T11:56:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olioweb.me.uk\/spence\/?page_id=786"},"modified":"2021-11-05T12:47:17","modified_gmt":"2021-11-05T12:47:17","slug":"confusion","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/olioweb.me.uk\/spence\/?page_id=786","title":{"rendered":"Confusion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>(a lockdown dream)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Wide endless streets, everywhere I go,<br \/>\nwalking around with a puzzled face.<br \/>\nWhere am I now, and where am I going,<br \/>\nit&#8217;s all familiar, and yet out of place?<br \/>\nSo many voices I hear all around me,<br \/>\neach confident, brash and quite sure,<br \/>\nEach direction I take, ends with the same<br \/>\ndark shuttered and bolted front door.<\/p>\n<p>Round I go always listening for news<br \/>\nthat points a way towards light,<br \/>\nseeking a way that brings answers<br \/>\nto this seemingly endless night.<br \/>\nVoices cry, &#8216;Stay at home, stay safe,<br \/>\nno meeting your friends, keep apart.&#8217;<br \/>\nThe daily litany of death is recited<br \/>\ncoming close to crushing my heart.<\/p>\n<p>Now, like dawn breaking over the hills<br \/>\na vaccine has arrived on the scene;<br \/>\na way has been found to protect us all,<br \/>\ngiving hope where despair has been.<br \/>\nI feel I am awaking from a deep sleep<br \/>\nto see a familiar world once again,<br \/>\nwhere confusion once reigned, it&#8217;s now<br \/>\na city washed clean by the rain.<\/p>\n<p><em>January 2021<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/olioweb.me.uk\/spence\/?page_id=633\">NEXT POEM &gt;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong>(a lockdown dream)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Wide endless streets, everywhere I go,<br \/>\nwalking around with a puzzled face.<br \/>\nWhere am I now, and where am I going,<br \/>\nit&#8217;s all familiar, and yet out of place?<br \/>\nSo many voices I hear all around me,<br \/>\neach confident, brash and quite sure,<br \/>\nEach direction I take, ends with the same<br \/>&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"margintop-large margintop-xlarge-l clear-both\"><a href=\"https:\/\/olioweb.me.uk\/spence\/?page_id=786#s\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Confusion<\/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-786","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olioweb.me.uk\/spence\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/786","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=786"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/olioweb.me.uk\/spence\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/786\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1022,"href":"https:\/\/olioweb.me.uk\/spence\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/786\/revisions\/1022"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olioweb.me.uk\/spence\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}