{"id":269,"date":"2009-12-11T13:19:04","date_gmt":"2009-12-11T13:19:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/poetlizbrownlee.co.uk\/site\/?p=269"},"modified":"2024-11-23T15:47:58","modified_gmt":"2024-11-23T15:47:58","slug":"first-blog-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.poetlizbrownlee.co.uk\/site\/first-blog-post","title":{"rendered":"Turtle Lullaby in The Sea&#8217;s Song, OUP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Baby Turtle Lullaby<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"color: #ffcc99;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A warm, salty breeze<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">is blowing, small turtles,<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">asleep in your nests<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">under sand in the bay,<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"color: #ffcc99;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">the touch of soft starlight,<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">the sound of the sea\u2019s song,<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">is calling to wake you<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">and bear you away,<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"color: #ffcc99;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">your destiny waits in<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">blue, boundless oceans,<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">so say your goodbyes<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">to the motionless land,<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"color: #ffcc99;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">paddle as fast as<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">your flippers can follow<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">and leave just your<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">butterfly prints in the sand.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ffcc99;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a9 Liz Brownlee<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ffcc99;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>You can find this poem and another by me in The Sea&#8217;s Song, published by Oxford University Press:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.poetlizbrownlee.co.uk\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/IMG_7658.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-600 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.poetlizbrownlee.co.uk\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/IMG_7658-1024x768.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"539\" height=\"404\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.poetlizbrownlee.co.uk\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/IMG_7658-1024x768.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/www.poetlizbrownlee.co.uk\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/IMG_7658-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.poetlizbrownlee.co.uk\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/IMG_7658-768x576.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 539px) 100vw, 539px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Baby Turtle Lullaby . A warm, salty breeze is blowing, small turtles, asleep in your nests under sand in the bay, . the touch of soft starlight, the sound of the sea\u2019s song, is calling to wake you and bear you away, . your destiny waits in blue, boundless oceans, so say your goodbyes to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[179],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.poetlizbrownlee.co.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.poetlizbrownlee.co.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.poetlizbrownlee.co.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.poetlizbrownlee.co.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.poetlizbrownlee.co.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=269"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.poetlizbrownlee.co.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":641,"href":"https:\/\/www.poetlizbrownlee.co.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269\/revisions\/641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.poetlizbrownlee.co.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.poetlizbrownlee.co.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.poetlizbrownlee.co.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}