{"id":294,"date":"2005-12-23T03:10:20","date_gmt":"2005-12-23T01:10:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.greygriffin.net\/?p=294"},"modified":"2005-12-23T03:10:20","modified_gmt":"2005-12-23T01:10:20","slug":"christmas-tree","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.greygriffin.net\/?p=294","title":{"rendered":"Christmas tree"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/greygriffin\/76412629\/\" title=\"photo sharing\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/static.flickr.com\/41\/76412629_af7e98d99c_m.jpg\" alt=\"\" style=\"border: solid 2px #000000;\" \/><\/a><br \/><span style=\"font-size: 0.9em; margin-top: 0px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/greygriffin\/76412629\/\">Christmas tree<\/a> <br \/>Originally uploaded by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/people\/greygriffin\/\">Greygriffin<\/a>.<\/span><br clear=\"all\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Michael came round and helped Eve decorate our Christmas tree, while I was working on icing the Christmas cake. Then we got out the &#8216;interesting&#8217; beers and whiskies, and talked and talked and talked. We got out my copies of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/1857547047\/\">Robert Herrick&#8217;s Select Poems<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0192820354\/\">Palgrave&#8217;s Golden Treasury<\/a> and read a few poems together, Michael specializing in pronounding Burns&#8217; Scottish poems.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>I always enjoy reading poetry out loud: the challenge is to read the words so fluently that they sound completely natural, even if the language is that of 400 years ago. Back when I was studying Finnish a dozen years ago, we used to go to a bar after the Thursday evening lesson, and I&#8217;d always get out my copy of Palgrave&#8217;s Golden Treasury and pass it around for each to read a poem in turn. It was a lot of fun &#8211; I&#8217;m sure the others will still remember.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Christmas tree Originally uploaded by Greygriffin. Michael came round and helped Eve decorate our Christmas tree, while I was working on icing the Christmas cake. Then we got out the &#8216;interesting&#8217; beers and whiskies, and talked and talked and talked. We got out my copies of Robert Herrick&#8217;s Select Poems and Palgrave&#8217;s Golden Treasury and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greygriffin.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greygriffin.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greygriffin.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greygriffin.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greygriffin.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=294"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.greygriffin.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greygriffin.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greygriffin.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greygriffin.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}