{"id":100,"date":"2011-11-13T22:20:05","date_gmt":"2011-11-13T22:20:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/?p=100"},"modified":"2011-11-13T22:20:05","modified_gmt":"2011-11-13T22:20:05","slug":"by-the-fireside-with-my-mother","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2011\/11\/by-the-fireside-with-my-mother\/","title":{"rendered":"By the fireside with my mother"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"center\">How many of you, remember the fireside<br \/>\nA place to toast the bread, and chestnuts too<br \/>\nWarm your cold legs up a bit, and warm your hands<br \/>\nAnd do what all good families liked to do<br \/>\n<!--more-->Sit and hug and dream away an evening<br \/>\nWhilst Jack Frost is about, and inside, he<br \/>\nCoats the window pane with all his white breath<br \/>\nChristmas Day together happily<\/p>\n<p>Nowadays so few homes still have their firesides<br \/>\nThe centre which gave off its magic glow<br \/>\nNowadays people hardly ever chatter<br \/>\nHypnotic firesides, no one wants to know<br \/>\nThis is progress, flat screens,wrap around sound<br \/>\nIpods, 24 hour drinking in<br \/>\nKnife crime, Wars a raging all around us<br \/>\nIdentity theft, Society wearing thin<br \/>\nWar on Terror, millions killed in IRAQ<br \/>\nI wish somehow I could re live this rhyme<br \/>\nAnd sit beside the fireside with my mother<br \/>\nAnd see her lovely face just one more time<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How many of you, remember the fireside A place to toast the bread, and chestnuts too Warm your cold legs up a bit, and warm your hands And do what all good families liked to do<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christmas-stories","category-poems"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":101,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100\/revisions\/101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}