{"id":4879,"date":"2020-10-30T11:17:02","date_gmt":"2020-10-30T11:17:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stuartpoetry.art\/?p=4879"},"modified":"2020-10-30T11:17:02","modified_gmt":"2020-10-30T11:17:02","slug":"i-sent-a-selfie-to-yang-chi-sheng","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/2020\/10\/30\/i-sent-a-selfie-to-yang-chi-sheng\/","title":{"rendered":"I Sent a Selfie to Yang Chi Sheng"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Whilst walking in the winter woods I sent a selfie to Yang Chi Sheng as I knew that he would soon be executed<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>My photo showed me in my pink anorak and hiking jeans as well as my Converse trainers which were totally impractical for my day<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The trees behind me were bare but were showing signs of the seasons turn<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>In the distance there were snowdrops hidden in small white gatherings<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>They reminded me of the soft melting snow<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>My friend came back to me almost immediately with a poem that he planned to recite on the way to his execution<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><i>This infinite spirit I restore to the mighty void\u00a0<\/i><\/div>\n<div><i>\u00a0<\/i><\/div>\n<div><i>But a loyal heart will shine for whatever time\u00a0<\/i><\/div>\n<div><i>\u00a0<\/i><\/div>\n<div><i>All that is in this life I have left undone\u00a0<\/i><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Whilst walking in the winter woods I sent a selfie to Yang Chi Sheng as I knew that he would soon be executed My photo showed me in my pink anorak and hiking jeans as well as my Converse trainers which were totally impractical for my day The trees behind me were bare but were [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4879"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4879"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4879\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}