{"id":40,"date":"2009-12-09T10:28:46","date_gmt":"2009-12-09T10:28:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/poetlizbrownlee.co.uk\/site\/?p=40"},"modified":"2009-12-15T18:37:24","modified_gmt":"2009-12-15T18:37:24","slug":"the-elephant-song","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.poetlizbrownlee.co.uk\/site\/the-elephant-song","title":{"rendered":"Elephant Song"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-113\" title=\"really-black-ele-with-grass-exi-copy-4\" src=\"http:\/\/poetlizbrownlee.co.uk\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/really-black-ele-with-grass-exi-copy-4.gif\" alt=\"really-black-ele-with-grass-exi-copy-4\" width=\"350\" height=\"292\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.poetlizbrownlee.co.uk\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/really-black-ele-with-grass-exi-copy-4.gif 350w, https:\/\/www.poetlizbrownlee.co.uk\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/really-black-ele-with-grass-exi-copy-4-300x250.gif 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/>Loxodonta africana<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Night holds them safe,<br \/>\nthe moon in cloud gleams,<br \/>\nand deep in the darkness<br \/>\nof soft breath and dreams,<\/p>\n<p>the elephant mother<br \/>\ngreets her new son,<br \/>\nwith a tender and gentle<br \/>\nlow soft hum,<\/p>\n<p>she strokes his face<br \/>\nthe night-left long,<br \/>\nand sings her newborn<br \/>\nelephant song.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a9 Liz Brownlee<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.poetlizbrownlee.co.uk\/site\/poems\">Back to Poems<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Loxodonta africana Night holds them safe, the moon in cloud gleams, and deep in the darkness of soft breath and dreams, the elephant mother greets her new son, with a tender and gentle low soft hum, she strokes his face the night-left long, and sings her newborn elephant song. \u00a9 Liz Brownlee Back to Poems<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[77,83,95,97,98,170],"class_list":["post-40","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poems-from-my-books","tag-lonely","tag-frog","tag-glass","tag-imagine","tag-dream","tag-safe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.poetlizbrownlee.co.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40","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=40"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/www.poetlizbrownlee.co.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43,"href":"https:\/\/www.poetlizbrownlee.co.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40\/revisions\/43"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.poetlizbrownlee.co.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.poetlizbrownlee.co.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.poetlizbrownlee.co.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}