{"id":71232,"date":"2026-04-06T22:40:51","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T22:40:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/?p=71232"},"modified":"2026-04-06T22:40:51","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T22:40:51","slug":"in-dancers-end-i-met-a-friend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2026\/04\/in-dancers-end-i-met-a-friend\/","title":{"rendered":"In Dancers End I met a friend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In A Queens  Anne  house<br \/>\nIn Dancers End<br \/>\nOn a stormy  night<br \/>\nI met a friend<br \/>\nOn a staircase steep<br \/>\nA presence deep<br \/>\nAn effigy the<br \/>\nsort of sight<br \/>\nThat appeared to touch me<br \/>\nAnd watch me fall<br \/>\nDown a flight<br \/>\nInto the hall<br \/>\nA couple of goblets of red wine<br \/>\nRelaxed me I just felt divine<br \/>\nI found my way to a bed<br \/>\nAnd slept<br \/>\nSeemingly I felt adept<br \/>\nTo this amazing mansion<br \/>\nSurrounded by<br \/>\nAncient woods<br \/>\nThat underlie<br \/>\nThe spirit world<br \/>\nThe hauntings there<br \/>\nWithout a troubled thought or care<br \/>\nAll these years later<br \/>\nPassing by the Queen Anne mansion<br \/>\nIn the sky.<br \/>\nI recalled its presence felt<br \/>\nAnd the ghost mine host<br \/>\nAnd it\u2019s cards it dealt.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In A Queens Anne house In Dancers End On a stormy night I met a friend On a staircase steep A presence deep An effigy the sort of sight That appeared to touch me And watch me fall Down a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2026\/04\/in-dancers-end-i-met-a-friend\/\">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":[749,849],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-country-tale","category-the-muse"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71232","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=71232"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71232\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71233,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71232\/revisions\/71233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}