{"id":46229,"date":"2018-06-17T22:47:45","date_gmt":"2018-06-17T21:47:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.iainclaridge.co.uk\/blog\/?p=46229"},"modified":"2018-06-27T09:50:11","modified_gmt":"2018-06-27T08:50:11","slug":"the-moment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iainclaridge.co.uk\/blog\/46229","title":{"rendered":"Margaret Atwood: The Moment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The moment when, after many years<br \/>\nof hard work and a long voyage<br \/>\nyou stand in the centre of your room,<br \/>\nhouse, half-acre, square mile, island, country,<br \/>\nknowing at last how you got there,<br \/>\nand say, I own this,<\/p>\n<p>is the same moment when the trees unloose<br \/>\ntheir soft arms from around you,<br \/>\nthe birds take back their language,<br \/>\nthe cliffs fissure and collapse,<br \/>\nthe air moves back from you like a wave<br \/>\nand you can&#8217;t breathe.<\/p>\n<p>No, they whisper. You own nothing.<br \/>\nYou were a visitor, time after time<br \/>\nclimbing the hill, planting the flag, proclaiming.<br \/>\nWe never belonged to you.<br \/>\nYou never found us.<br \/>\nIt was always the other way round.<\/p>\n<p>By <a href=\"https:\/\/www.poemhunter.com\/margaret-atwood\/poems\/\">Margaret Atwood<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The moment when, after many years of hard work and a long voyage you stand in the centre of your room, house, half-acre, square mile, island, country, knowing at last how you got there, and say, I own this, is the same moment when the trees unloose their soft arms from around you, the birds [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[37,5,1],"tags":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iainclaridge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46229"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iainclaridge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iainclaridge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iainclaridge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iainclaridge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46229"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.iainclaridge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46229\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46231,"href":"https:\/\/www.iainclaridge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46229\/revisions\/46231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iainclaridge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iainclaridge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iainclaridge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}