{"id":16021,"date":"2024-02-06T10:46:11","date_gmt":"2024-02-06T10:46:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cassandravoices.com\/?p=16021"},"modified":"2024-02-06T10:46:11","modified_gmt":"2024-02-06T10:46:11","slug":"poetry-peter-omalley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/casswp.eutonom.eu\/index.php\/2024\/02\/06\/poetry-peter-omalley\/","title":{"rendered":"Poetry: Peter O&#8217;Malley"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"><strong>The Only Time Our Adult Hands Touched<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>I was 29, he was 72<br \/>\nWe were building up a stone wall<br \/>\nThat a Hereford bullock knocked<br \/>\nWhen trying to leap over<\/p>\n<p>Our hands went for the same stone<br \/>\nThen both pulled back<br \/>\nI was embarrassed<br \/>\nThat\u2019s how he raised me<\/p>\n<p>He said after 7 hours<br \/>\n\u2018Ah we will leave the rest till tomorrow\u2019<br \/>\nI was shocked<br \/>\nIt was the first time in my life<br \/>\nI heard him say such treasonous words<\/p>\n<p>In the car on the way home<br \/>\nI realised that some day, within my lifetime<br \/>\nHe was going to die on me<br \/>\nLeaving me unable to hold anything in my hands<br \/>\nExcept cold dead stones<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Feature Image: Daniele Idini<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Only Time Our Adult Hands Touched I was 29, he was 72 We were building up a stone wall That a Hereford bullock knocked When trying to leap over Our hands went for the same stone Then both pulled back I was embarrassed That\u2019s how he raised me He said after 7 hours \u2018Ah [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16025,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[6756,7115,7136,7137,7138,7139,7140,7341,9206],"class_list":["post-16021","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-poetry","tag-omalley","tag-peter","tag-peter-omalley-cassandra-voices","tag-peter-omalley-first-published-work","tag-peter-omalley-irish-poet","tag-peter-omalley-poet","tag-peter-omalley-poetry","tag-poetry","tag-the-only-time-our-adult-hands-touched"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/casswp.eutonom.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16021","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/casswp.eutonom.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/casswp.eutonom.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/casswp.eutonom.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/casswp.eutonom.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16021"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/casswp.eutonom.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16021\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/casswp.eutonom.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/casswp.eutonom.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/casswp.eutonom.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/casswp.eutonom.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}