{"id":374,"date":"2008-03-21T20:07:18","date_gmt":"2008-03-21T20:07:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/2008\/03\/21\/now-sleeps-the-crimson-petal\/"},"modified":"2008-03-21T20:07:18","modified_gmt":"2008-03-21T20:07:18","slug":"now-sleeps-the-crimson-petal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/2008\/03\/21\/now-sleeps-the-crimson-petal\/","title":{"rendered":"Now Sleeps the Crimson Petal"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<pre>\r\n       Now Sleeps the Crimson Petal\r\n\r\n\r\nNow sleeps the crimson petal, now the white;\r\nNor waves the cypress in the palace walk;\r\nNor winks the gold fin in the porphyry font:\r\nThe firefly wakens: waken thou with me.\r\n\r\nNow droops the milkwhite peacock like a ghost,\r\nAnd like a ghost she glimmers on to me.\r\n\r\nNow lies the Earth all Danae to the stars,\r\nAnd all thy heart lies open unto me.\r\n\r\nNow slides the silent meteor on, and leaves\r\nA shining furrow, as thy thoughts in me.\r\n\r\nNow folds the lily all her sweetness up,\r\nAnd slips into the bosom of the lake:\r\nSo fold thyself, my dearest, thou, and slip\r\nInto my bosom and be lost in me.\r\n\r\n             -- by Lord Alfred Tennyson\r\n<\/pre>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now Sleeps the Crimson Petal Now sleeps the crimson petal, now the white; Nor waves the cypress in the palace walk; Nor winks the gold fin in the porphyry font: The firefly wakens: waken thou with me. Now droops the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/2008\/03\/21\/now-sleeps-the-crimson-petal\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[382,407],"class_list":["post-374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry","tag-personal","tag-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=374"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}