{"id":421,"date":"2010-08-12T09:41:08","date_gmt":"2010-08-12T16:41:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shaunbelcher.com\/writing\/?p=421"},"modified":"2016-06-10T00:31:25","modified_gmt":"2016-06-10T07:31:25","slug":"landlocked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shaunbelcher.com\/writing\/?p=421","title":{"rendered":"Landlocked"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>LANDLOCKED<br \/>\n<\/strong><br \/>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-429\" title=\"platform\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/shaunbelcher.com\/writing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/platform.jpg?resize=300%2C225&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"platform\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/shaunbelcher.com\/writing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/platform.jpg?resize=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/shaunbelcher.com\/writing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/platform.jpg?w=800&amp;ssl=1 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Tied to a flat land<br \/>\nOf reclaimed pits and winding river<br \/>\nThe railway has gone<br \/>\nCoal blackened tracks have grown over<\/p>\n<p>Every wind caresses its absence<br \/>\nThe silent factories know their part<br \/>\nBut cannot speak,\u00c2\u00a0chains hold fast<br \/>\nBeyond pale gates and security huts<\/p>\n<p>Poppies and cow parsley, ragwort and buddleia<br \/>\nA necklace of flowers around the empress lines<br \/>\nThe slag of the steel rails is buried deep<br \/>\nRusting wires rippling with plastic<\/p>\n<p>Where prisoners of war once huddled<br \/>\nNow euro-workers assemble market stalls every Sunday<br \/>\nChatter into cheap mobiles, pocket loose change<br \/>\nAgainst backdrops of power station, Tesco and trains<\/p>\n<p>Midnight and bodies tumble from white van crates<br \/>\nIn the empty parkway<br \/>\nDuck and dive and gulp clean air<br \/>\nBefore swimming beyond the broken chainlink<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LANDLOCKED Tied to a flat land Of reclaimed pits and winding river The railway has gone Coal blackened tracks have grown over Every wind caresses its absence The silent factories know their part But cannot speak,\u00c2\u00a0chains hold fast Beyond pale gates and security huts Poppies and cow parsley, ragwort and buddleia A necklace of flowers&#8230;<\/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_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[66],"class_list":["post-421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-the-drifting-village"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6nhh-6N","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shaunbelcher.com\/writing\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shaunbelcher.com\/writing\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shaunbelcher.com\/writing\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shaunbelcher.com\/writing\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shaunbelcher.com\/writing\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=421"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/shaunbelcher.com\/writing\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1361,"href":"https:\/\/shaunbelcher.com\/writing\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421\/revisions\/1361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shaunbelcher.com\/writing\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shaunbelcher.com\/writing\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shaunbelcher.com\/writing\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}