{"id":599,"date":"2020-09-02T18:20:40","date_gmt":"2020-09-02T17:20:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/johntownshend.com\/wordpress\/?p=599"},"modified":"2020-09-02T18:20:40","modified_gmt":"2020-09-02T17:20:40","slug":"ex-musings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jwt.quest\/wordpress\/ex-musings\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex musings"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Does the sun make a noise? <br>I can only but wonder as her silence speaks volumes. <br>Broken promises and a broken mind. <br>There is no fixing but we continue living. <br><br>Hush. I hear rain. I hear the onset of autumnal hope. <br>A cool breeze makes a warm hum on the window pane. <br>Traffic planing on lying water on the road. <br>A whoosh of joy as memories warm my heart. <br><br>The same horizon; the same place. <br>Things are somehow different. <br>A catalogue of comfort is no help. <br>Too different. Too unknown. <br><br>A carrot can be a treat for a hungry deer. <br>What I&#8217;d give to hear from the trees. <br>Living a slow life, perfectly still. <br>I can only be ponder what life has in store. <br><br>Living young is full of strength and unknowns. <br>Maturity brings adventure and misplaced confidence. <br>Old age brings acceptance and certainty. <br>I feel old before my time. <br><br>Sleeping aged 15 in a room full of heroin addicts. <br>I can appreciate the kindness of the inn keeper. <br>The night before in the cells did me no good. <br>A life of deserved mistrust for those in authority. <br><br>Fast forward eighteen years and I walk past the shops. <br>Police racially profile black children for a stop and search. <br>I walk slowly so they know I&#8217;ll be their witness. <br>We cannot let our friends live with this injustice. <br><br>Gathering bilberries on the moors is therapeutic. <br>A small handful may take five minutes to pick. <br>A five second chew, an explosion of juice and flavour, they are gone. <br>Time well spent. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Does the sun make a noise? I can only but wonder as her silence speaks volumes. Broken promises and a broken mind. There is no fixing but we continue living. Hush. I hear rain. I hear the onset of autumnal hope. A cool breeze makes a warm hum on the window pane. Traffic planing on &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/jwt.quest\/wordpress\/ex-musings\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Ex musings<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poems","category-rants"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jwt.quest\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jwt.quest\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jwt.quest\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jwt.quest\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jwt.quest\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=599"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jwt.quest\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jwt.quest\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jwt.quest\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jwt.quest\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}