{"id":3234,"date":"2023-11-26T20:27:52","date_gmt":"2023-11-26T20:27:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=3234"},"modified":"2023-11-28T23:04:47","modified_gmt":"2023-11-28T23:04:47","slug":"the-mountains-call","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/the-poems\/the-mountains-call\/","title":{"rendered":"The Mountains call"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> The Mountains call<br \/>\nby cricketjeff on September 15, 2008.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved<br \/>\nI hear the mountains call<br \/>\nAnd taste the squalling rain<br \/>\nI must go there again<br \/>\nFar from the cold restraining hand<br \/>\nThat rules in flatter land<br \/>\nIf you can understand why I<br \/>\nMust try to touch the sky<br \/>\nWhere hawks and fly so free<br \/>\nThe breezes from the sea<br \/>\nHave taken hold of me tonight<br \/>\nMy soul has taken flight<br \/>\nThe most exciting sight I know<br \/>\nAn ice cold tarn below<br \/>\nA mountain top can blow your mind<br \/>\nYou leave all care behind<br \/>\nFor nobody can find mistakes<br \/>\nA single look is all it takes<br \/>\nAnd sky and rocks and lakes are all<\/p>\n<p> Author notes<br \/>\nPlaying with a Vitnamese form called &#8220;luc bat&#8221; (literally six eight).<br \/>\nAlternating lines of 6 and eight syllables rhymed thus:-<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;..a<br \/>\n&#8230;..a.b<br \/>\n&#8230;..b<br \/>\n&#8230;..b.c<br \/>\n&#8230;..c.d<br \/>\netc. until<br \/>\n&#8230;..x.z<br \/>\n&#8230;..z<br \/>\n&#8230;..z.a<\/p>\n<p>There is no fixed length as long as you end with the first rhyme.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Mountains call by cricketjeff on September 15, 2008.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved I hear the mountains call And taste the squalling rain I must go there again Far from the cold restraining hand That rules in flatter land If you can understand why I Must try to touch the sky Where hawks [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":9742,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-3234","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3234","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3234"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3234\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8273,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3234\/revisions\/8273"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}