{"id":22888,"date":"2020-01-22T07:58:15","date_gmt":"2020-01-22T12:58:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ianchadwick.com\/blog\/?p=22888"},"modified":"2020-01-22T07:58:15","modified_gmt":"2020-01-22T12:58:15","slug":"the-sounds-of-winter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ianchadwick.com\/blog\/the-sounds-of-winter\/","title":{"rendered":"The Sounds of Winter"},"content":{"rendered":"
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To the tune of Sounds of Silence, with apologies to Paul Simon…<\/em><\/p>\n

Hello, winter, my old friend
\nI have a bone to pick, again
\nBecause a snowplow softly creeping
\nPassed my house while I was sleeping
\nMy driveway’s blocked and I’m shovelling again
\nMy back’s in pain
\nI curse these days of winter.<\/p>\n

Every day we play this game.
\nDigging out then filled again.
\nThe snow drifts reach up unto my knees
\nBeneath the heavy snow my pipes do freeze
\nEach time I clear my driveway of the heavy load I know
\nThere’ll be more snow.
\nI hear the plow a-coming.<\/p>\n

And in the morning light I saw
\nTen thousand shovels, maybe more
\nPeople shovelling without speaking
\nPeople shovelling their backs creaking
\nPeople piling snow on mounds that tower high
\nTo reach the sky
\nThe daily curse of winter.<\/p>\n

“Fools,” said I, “You do not know
\nSnowdrifts like a mountain grows.
\nSnowblowers may throw it far and wide
\nBut the drifts never do subside.”
\nFrom above, as the silent snowflakes churn
\nThe plow returns
\nI curse the days of winter.<\/p>\n

And the snowplow flew and sprayed
\nAnother driveway wall it made
\nAnd shovels rose up and fell again
\nAs the neighbours groaned and backs did bend
\nAnd the snow it continued to fall down
\nThe plow turned ’round
\nJust another day of winter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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To the tune of Sounds of Silence, with apologies to Paul Simon… Hello, winter, my old friend I have a bone to pick, again Because a snowplow softly creeping Passed my house while I was sleeping My driveway’s blocked and I’m shovelling again My back’s in pain I curse these days of winter. Every day we play this game. Digging out then filled again. The snow drifts reach up unto my knees Beneath the heavy snow my pipes do freeze Each time I clear my driveway of the heavy load I know There’ll be more snow. I hear the plow \u2026…… click below for more \u2193<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[222,223,263,411],"tags":[227,1079,76,625],"class_list":["post-22888","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humour","category-literary-pretensions","category-writing-2","category-poetry-lyrics","tag-humour-2","tag-poem","tag-poetry","tag-winter"],"a3_pvc":{"activated":true,"total_views":316,"today_views":1},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ianchadwick.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22888","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ianchadwick.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ianchadwick.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ianchadwick.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ianchadwick.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22888"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ianchadwick.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22888\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22889,"href":"https:\/\/ianchadwick.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22888\/revisions\/22889"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ianchadwick.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ianchadwick.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ianchadwick.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}