{"id":5103,"date":"2020-11-10T18:15:28","date_gmt":"2020-11-10T18:15:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stuartpoetry.art\/?p=5103"},"modified":"2020-11-10T18:15:28","modified_gmt":"2020-11-10T18:15:28","slug":"borrowed-pasture-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/2020\/11\/10\/borrowed-pasture-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Borrowed Pasture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Exiled from your homeland<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">You have farmed<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This derelict land<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For twelve winters<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is unlikely that you will return<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">To the country of your birth<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And you know<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">That you will fade<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Without protest<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Into these unforgiving hills<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><em>Two Polish soldiers who were exiled after serving in the Second World War found refuge in rural Wales in the years after the conflict<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><em>They chanced upon a derelict hillside farm which had not been worked for twenty years and have tried to scrape a living from its hostile land without much success<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><em>Their plight was the subject of a BBC documentary in 1960<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Exiled from your homeland You have farmed This derelict land For twelve winters It is unlikely that you will return To the country of your birth And you know That you will fade Without protest Into these unforgiving hills Two Polish soldiers who were exiled after serving in the Second World War found refuge in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5103"}],"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=5103"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5103\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}