{"id":804,"date":"2008-02-06T05:55:54","date_gmt":"2008-02-06T10:55:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/2008\/02\/06\/tilting-at-snowfall-revised-again\/"},"modified":"2008-02-06T05:55:54","modified_gmt":"2008-02-06T10:55:54","slug":"tilting-at-snowfall-revised-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/2008\/02\/06\/tilting-at-snowfall-revised-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Tilting at snowfall (revised again)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Snow soon howls down<br \/>\nwind carved broken moon<br \/>\nsky cowled Queen glares<\/p>\n<p>knight lash armour tight<br \/>\nwool cinch hoarse throat<br \/>\nlungs bellow arsenal fire<\/p>\n<p>chant valedictory oath<br \/>\nbrave eye-spitting cold<br \/>\nmount white walls warrior<\/p>\n<p>launch wide blade imperial<br \/>\ncharge screaming battlement<br \/>\nheart stagger triumph hero<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>[This revision is courtesy of interaction with the cheery band of poet-critics at WildPoetry.com. In it, I have tried to merge my response to requests for a more regular meter and more verbs. I suggest that one keep in mind the title while reading this, and my background studies years ago in Old English battle poetry . . . ]\u00a0<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Snow soon howls down wind carved broken moon sky cowled Queen glares knight lash armour tight wool cinch hoarse throat lungs bellow arsenal fire chant valedictory oath brave eye-spitting cold mount white walls warrior launch wide blade imperial charge screaming &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/2008\/02\/06\/tilting-at-snowfall-revised-again\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,54,52,3,24],"tags":[997,133,163],"class_list":["post-804","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-boppin","category-experiment","category-lotus-eaters","category-poetry","category-serial","tag-aging","tag-satire","tag-winter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/804","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=804"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/804\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}