{"id":110708,"date":"2013-08-24T23:54:13","date_gmt":"2013-08-25T03:54:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/110708\/poem-natural-history\/"},"modified":"2013-08-24T23:54:13","modified_gmt":"2013-08-25T03:54:13","slug":"poem-natural-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/110708\/poem-natural-history\/","title":{"rendered":"POEM: Natural History"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font face=\"arial, helvetica, sans-serif\" size=\"4\"><strong><em>This was written to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.friendburst.com\/blog\/110703\/simple-sunday-picture-challenge-gets-storm-tossed\/#comment-331125\">CPC Simple Sunday Picture challenge&#8217;s<\/a> featured art, titled &#8220;Boat in a Storm&#8221; by Antarctican artist RHADS.<\/em><\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n<p><br class=\"spacer_\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i136.photobucket.com\/albums\/q183\/scotorum\/WednesdaySunday\/SSArt82513_zps9f0dc980.jpg\" alt=\"SSArt82513 photo SSArt82513_zps9f0dc980.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><font face=\"Arial\"><font size=\"6\"><strong>NATURAL HISTORY<\/strong><\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><font face=\"Arial\"><font size=\"6\"><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"Arial\"><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><font size=\"5\"><strong> Viking longboat crossed the sea<br \/>\n on a long boat-tossed journey,<br \/>\n from the coast of scandiknaves,<br \/>\n over host of storm-tossed waves.<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"5\"><strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Fergus Forkbeard led the way,<br \/>\ntold of future&#8217;s better day<br \/>\n booty grand and lasses fair<br \/>\n to run their fingers through red hair.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">&#8216;Twas by the mouth of Firth of Forth,<br \/>\n confusion reigned for men of north.<br \/>\n Longboat tipped its cargo out<br \/>\n wild waves churned men and wreck about.<\/p>\n<p><\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><font size=\"5\"><strong> Thankful Scots praised divine wrath<br \/>\n From precipice by Firth&#8217;s bay path.<br \/>\n Viking invasion was held back<br \/>\n until calm seas brought new attack.<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n<p><\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><font face=\"Arial\"><font size=\"3\"> inspired by the artwork &#8220;Boat in a Storm&#8221; by RHADS<br \/>\n Copyright August 25th 2013 RGD<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This was written to the CPC Simple Sunday Picture challenge&#8217;s featured art, titled &#8220;Boat in a Storm&#8221; by Antarctican artist RHADS. \u00a0 NATURAL HISTORY Viking longboat crossed the sea on a long boat-tossed journey, from the coast of scandiknaves, over host of storm-tossed waves. Fergus Forkbeard led the way, told of future&#8217;s better day booty [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-110708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poems"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110708","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110708"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110708\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}