{"id":441,"date":"2017-07-28T11:43:11","date_gmt":"2017-07-28T11:43:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/defiaye.com\/?p=441"},"modified":"2017-07-28T11:44:33","modified_gmt":"2017-07-28T11:44:33","slug":"sonnet-for-jimmy-reid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/defiaye.com\/index.php\/2017\/07\/28\/sonnet-for-jimmy-reid\/","title":{"rendered":"SONNET  FOR  JIMMY  REID"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><em>by Jaz Dunnichen<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">The Stygian dawn of Thatcher\u2019s children<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">loomed out of the maw of the South the day<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">he spoke clear again to me by the Tay<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">this mighty Clyde built man of then<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">orator of another river\u2019s ken<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">whereon he\u2019d employed with time\u2019s truth and lay<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">those ancient trusted Greek arts to inveigh<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">against disciples of greed and its yen.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Succinctly he voiced a selfless heart\u2019s cause<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">heralded hope and sang a plaintive hymn\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">of working dignity this man of pause<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">this denizen of the Communist rim,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">this fair fluent fan of Jesus Christ laws.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">No such fine ships in now\u2019s zeitgeist and whim.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Jaz Dunnichen &nbsp; The Stygian dawn of Thatcher\u2019s children loomed out of the maw of the South the day he spoke clear again to me by the Tay this mighty Clyde built man of then orator of another river\u2019s ken whereon he\u2019d employed with time\u2019s truth and lay those ancient trusted Greek arts to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":442,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[249,253,250,49,254,118,251,252,151,255],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/defiaye.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/defiaye.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/defiaye.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/defiaye.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/defiaye.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=441"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/defiaye.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":443,"href":"https:\/\/defiaye.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441\/revisions\/443"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/defiaye.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/defiaye.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/defiaye.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/defiaye.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}