{"id":133,"date":"2015-11-08T16:58:57","date_gmt":"2015-11-08T16:58:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/josephcummings.wordpress.com\/?p=133"},"modified":"2023-04-25T09:02:08","modified_gmt":"2023-04-25T09:02:08","slug":"lightest-africa-darkest-england","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ww2hero.rpmail.uk\/index.php\/2015\/11\/08\/lightest-africa-darkest-england\/","title":{"rendered":"Lightest Africa, Darkest England"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>O Capetown the carefree with your lights all aglow,<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Tis little the dangers of darkness you know.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>The hardness of walls that you simply can&#8217;t see<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>The lie-in-wait kerb stones that trip you with glee.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>When you open your doors and step out at night,<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>You see the lamps gleaming, so steady and bright.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>We stand by our doorways in darkness profound,<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>For the thousandth time over &#8216;that Man&#8217; we confound.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>And if we are reckless and we hurry our stride,<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>With something or someone we&#8217;re bound to collide.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Apologies they automatic do come,<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>A post or lady they both remain dumb.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>So Capetown the carefree, we lie in your bay,<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Admiring the night you&#8217;ve turned into day.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>But though all your lights they gleam ever so bright,<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>We&#8217;d change them all gladly for England tonight!<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>O Capetown the carefree with your lights all aglow, Tis little the dangers of darkness you know. The hardness of walls that you simply can&#8217;t see The lie-in-wait kerb stones that trip you with glee. When you open your doors and step out at night, You see the lamps gleaming, so steady and bright. We &#8230; <a title=\"Lightest Africa, Darkest England\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/ww2hero.rpmail.uk\/index.php\/2015\/11\/08\/lightest-africa-darkest-england\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Lightest Africa, Darkest England\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-his-poems"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ww2hero.rpmail.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ww2hero.rpmail.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ww2hero.rpmail.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww2hero.rpmail.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww2hero.rpmail.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ww2hero.rpmail.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":189,"href":"https:\/\/ww2hero.rpmail.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133\/revisions\/189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ww2hero.rpmail.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww2hero.rpmail.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww2hero.rpmail.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}