{"id":61643,"date":"2023-12-01T11:57:18","date_gmt":"2023-12-01T11:57:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/?p=61643"},"modified":"2023-12-01T13:14:19","modified_gmt":"2023-12-01T13:14:19","slug":"shane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2023\/12\/shane\/","title":{"rendered":"Shane"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Emerald Isle<br \/>\nShares its farewell<br \/>\nFor the poet himself<br \/>\nOne Dear<br \/>\nShane<br \/>\nMacGowan<br \/>\nThe foot tapping heart happy<br \/>\nSpirit<br \/>\none valour veiled<br \/>\nSongster supreme<br \/>\nHe sure was proclaiming<br \/>\nAudaciously flaming<br \/>\nThe Pogues<br \/>\nAnd he so loved to dream<\/p>\n<p>A serious sense of the genius boy<br \/>\nLiberated by song<br \/>\nBy tradition was he<br \/>\nRedemption salvation<br \/>\nA freeman of Ireland<br \/>\nOf course he could be<\/p>\n<p>Suffering surrendering surely<br \/>\nSuggesting<br \/>\nThe light of loves telling<br \/>\nEach lilting refrain<br \/>\nA passionate spirit<br \/>\nA mercurial master<br \/>\nConscious and mindful<br \/>\nAgain<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYour the one\u201d<br \/>\nHe with Moy\u00e0<br \/>\nSweetly and soothing<br \/>\nCloseness and tenderness<br \/>\nWords everyone<br \/>\nBouquets and florals<br \/>\nLeaving Liverpool buzzing<br \/>\nGravel and throaty<br \/>\nUnder the sun<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Emerald Isle Shares its farewell For the poet himself One Dear Shane MacGowan The foot tapping heart happy Spirit one valour veiled Songster supreme He sure was proclaiming Audaciously flaming The Pogues And he so loved to dream A &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2023\/12\/shane\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45,54,63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61643","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-musical-bric-a-brac","category-people-i-have-observed","category-poets-i-respect"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61643","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=61643"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61643\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61644,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61643\/revisions\/61644"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}