{"id":326,"date":"2015-11-16T17:34:27","date_gmt":"2015-11-16T17:34:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/matthewwaterhouse.com\/site\/?p=326"},"modified":"2015-11-16T17:34:27","modified_gmt":"2015-11-16T17:34:27","slug":"episode-12","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/matthewwaterhouse.com\/site\/episode-12\/","title":{"rendered":"Episode 12"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><strong style=\"font-size: large; color: inherit; font-family: inherit;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/matthewwaterhouse.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/tardis-round.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-64\" src=\"http:\/\/matthewwaterhouse.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/tardis-round-300x286.png\" alt=\"tardis-round\" width=\"300\" height=\"286\" srcset=\"http:\/\/matthewwaterhouse.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/tardis-round-300x286.png 300w, http:\/\/matthewwaterhouse.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/tardis-round-1024x978.png 1024w, http:\/\/matthewwaterhouse.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/tardis-round.png 1060w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small; color: #0000ff;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p>A poem from 1979 which, in its second half, seems even more to the point today. The poet spent much of his life in France and knew Paris well. He was one of the few English writers to be made a Chevalier dans l\u2019Ordre des Arts et des Lettres. <\/p>\n<p>                                                       SPEECHLESSNESS<br \/>\nA soldier at Mountbatten\u2019s funeral<br \/>\nTo the interviewer from the BBC:<br \/>\n\u201cI don\u2019t care what the poets will say,<br \/>\nOur fine old motto\u2019s good enough for me\u2026\u2026.\u201d<br \/>\nHe\u2019s right, of course, I know he is.<br \/>\n\u201cWe loved him,\u201d said the Romsey paper\u2019s editor,<br \/>\n\u201cBut what does a word like love mean nowadays?\u201d<br \/>\n\u201cWords, words, words\u201d: Impatience or despair?<br \/>\nMere wornout husks, devalued coinage, \u201cStrain<br \/>\nCrack and Sometimes Break\u2026.\u201d<br \/>\n\u201cWhat can one say?\u201d asks everyone.<br \/>\nSome withered wreaths: Imperishable memories?<br \/>\nSuch is our ever-increasing impotence<br \/>\nIn this our more and more blood-reeking world.<br \/>\nIs silence therefore really best?<br \/>\nEven a poet can no longer say.<\/p>\n<p>                                                                            David Gascoyne<br \/>\n                                                                             Aug-Sept 1979<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A poem from 1979 which, in its second half, seems even more to the point today. The poet spent much of his life in France and knew Paris well. He was one of the few English writers to be made a Chevalier dans l\u2019Ordre des Arts et des Lettres. SPEECHLESSNESS A soldier at Mountbatten\u2019s funeral [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-blue-box-blog","czr-hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/matthewwaterhouse.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/matthewwaterhouse.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/matthewwaterhouse.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/matthewwaterhouse.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/matthewwaterhouse.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=326"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/matthewwaterhouse.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":327,"href":"http:\/\/matthewwaterhouse.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326\/revisions\/327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/matthewwaterhouse.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/matthewwaterhouse.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/matthewwaterhouse.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}