{"id":872,"date":"2021-05-22T17:40:04","date_gmt":"2021-05-22T16:40:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olioweb.me.uk\/spence\/?page_id=872"},"modified":"2024-08-19T13:04:17","modified_gmt":"2024-08-19T12:04:17","slug":"painting-spring","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/olioweb.me.uk\/spence\/?page_id=872","title":{"rendered":"Painting Spring"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>(For David Hockney and his latest exhibition , the arrival of spring in Normandy. He is the same age as me).<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m proud to share my birthplace<br \/>\nwith famous painter Hockney D,<br \/>\nwe grew up among Bradford&#8217;s mills<br \/>\nwith smoke from every chimney.<\/p>\n<p>He vanished off to London, keen<br \/>\nto capitalise on his artist&#8217;s power<br \/>\nand then, in Californian&#8217;s blazing<br \/>\nsun, saw his glowing colours flower.<\/p>\n<p>Now an old man painting France,<br \/>\nin nature&#8217;s international drama,<br \/>\nhe covers the Royal Academy walls<br \/>\nwith his blossoming panorama.<\/p>\n<p>His eye keen as ever to discover<br \/>\nthe details of spring&#8217;s miracle,<br \/>\ntree, and bush, barn and field,<br \/>\nhe reaches for life&#8217;s pinnacle.<\/p>\n<p><em>May 2021<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/olioweb.me.uk\/spence\/?page_id=869\">NEXT POEM &gt;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><em>(For David Hockney and his latest exhibition , the arrival of spring in Normandy. He is the same age as me).<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m proud to share my birthplace<br \/>\nwith famous painter Hockney D,<br \/>\nwe grew up among Bradford&#8217;s mills<br \/>\nwith smoke from every chimney.<\/p>\n<p>He vanished off to London, keen<br \/>\nto capitalise on his artist&#8217;s power&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"margintop-large margintop-xlarge-l clear-both\"><a href=\"https:\/\/olioweb.me.uk\/spence\/?page_id=872#s\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Painting Spring<\/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-872","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olioweb.me.uk\/spence\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/872","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=872"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/olioweb.me.uk\/spence\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/872\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1220,"href":"https:\/\/olioweb.me.uk\/spence\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/872\/revisions\/1220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olioweb.me.uk\/spence\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}