{"id":18327,"date":"2025-12-02T15:25:59","date_gmt":"2025-12-02T15:25:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cassandravoices.com\/?p=18327"},"modified":"2025-12-02T15:25:59","modified_gmt":"2025-12-02T15:25:59","slug":"poem-what-comes-to-mind-in-ireland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/casswp.eutonom.eu\/index.php\/2025\/12\/02\/poem-what-comes-to-mind-in-ireland\/","title":{"rendered":"Poem: &#8216;What comes to mind in Ireland&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>What comes to mind in Ireland<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>What is black? An absence of light,<br \/>\nthe cassocks of parish priests,<br \/>\ndark peat in an Irish bog.<\/p>\n<p>What is brown? A leather belt,<br \/>\ndecaying plants, veins of iron in stones,<br \/>\nthe layered bark of a log.<\/p>\n<p>What is grey? Lowering clouds,<br \/>\nskies threatening rain over windswept water,<br \/>\nthe speckled muzzle of an old dog.<\/p>\n<p>What is silver? A crucifix round a neck,<br \/>\nhandcuffs and shackles, thirty shiny coins,<br \/>\na flash of light through heavy fog.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Feature Image: Daniele Idini<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What comes to mind in Ireland What is black? An absence of light, the cassocks of parish priests, dark peat in an Irish bog. What is brown? A leather belt, decaying plants, veins of iron in stones, the layered bark of a log. What is grey? Lowering clouds, skies threatening rain over windswept water, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18325,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[1449,1812,2336,2340,2341,2342,4459,6197,7320,7341,10015,10022],"class_list":["post-18327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-poetry","tag-cassandra-voices-poetry","tag-comes","tag-deborah-mason","tag-deborah-mason-oxford","tag-deborah-mason-poet","tag-deborah-mason-poetry","tag-ireland","tag-mind","tag-poem","tag-poetry","tag-what","tag-what-comes-to-mind-in-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/casswp.eutonom.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18327","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=18327"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/casswp.eutonom.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18327\/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=18327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/casswp.eutonom.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/casswp.eutonom.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}