{"id":51,"date":"2006-07-13T16:40:41","date_gmt":"2006-07-13T20:40:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.michaelpeach.org\/2006\/07\/13\/the-porcupine\/"},"modified":"2006-07-13T16:40:41","modified_gmt":"2006-07-13T20:40:41","slug":"the-porcupine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.michaelpeach.org\/the-porcupine\/","title":{"rendered":"The Porcupine"},"content":{"rendered":"

At midnight hour within the garth,
\nAlong a narrow moonlit path,
\nAs if on tiptoe, due to haste
\n(For not a moment could she waste
\nWhile Man at large was fast asleep),
\nA rustling porcupine did sweep.<\/p>\n

I stood aside to let her pass;
\nInstead she swished her bristly arse,
\nThen stopped abruptly, stamped a foot:
\nThe quills did rattle, sway, outshoot.<\/p>\n

“Nocturnal duchess,” I began,
\n“Put down that flesh-impaling fan!
\nSuch daft behaviour must now cease,
\nLike you I’m here in search of peace.”<\/p>\n

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Jerusalem
\n29 December 1993<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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At midnight hour within the garth, Along a narrow moonlit path, As if on tiptoe, due to haste (For not a moment could she waste While Man at large was fast asleep), A rustling porcupine did sweep. I stood aside to let her pass; Instead she swished her bristly arse, Then stopped abruptly, stamped a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelpeach.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelpeach.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelpeach.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelpeach.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelpeach.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelpeach.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelpeach.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelpeach.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelpeach.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}