{"id":912,"date":"2018-09-13T22:31:28","date_gmt":"2018-09-13T22:31:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zogue.com\/blog\/?p=912"},"modified":"2024-05-22T23:21:24","modified_gmt":"2024-05-22T23:21:24","slug":"flettons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zogue.com\/blog\/2018\/flettons\/","title":{"rendered":"Flettons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-914 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.zogue.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/houses.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"291\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.zogue.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/houses.png 986w, https:\/\/www.zogue.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/houses-300x136.png 300w, https:\/\/www.zogue.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/houses-768x349.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In the autumn Saturday afternoon sun<br \/>\nWe went to look at the demolition of the shops<br \/>\nAnd I saw the houses sitting on the road behind<br \/>\nMade of kiss-marked flettons<br \/>\nWith UPVC and aluminium additions<br \/>\nThere was something there all of a sudden<br \/>\nAbout your far away house<\/p>\n<p>I want to try and get to it but I cannot<br \/>\nA metaphor for distance<br \/>\nFor settling for something<br \/>\nClipped wings saying &#8220;this&#8217;ll do&#8221;<br \/>\nInstead of saying &#8220;this is what I want&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I am busy, but tearful<br \/>\nI have things done, and things to do<br \/>\nAnd lots of things to look forward to<br \/>\nBut those damn fletton bricks<br \/>\nAnd something warm and far away<br \/>\nAnd a sad young man in 1986<br \/>\nAre all playing on my middle aged mind<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-913\" src=\"http:\/\/www.zogue.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/flettons.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"768\" height=\"274\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.zogue.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/flettons.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.zogue.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/flettons-300x107.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the autumn Saturday afternoon sun We went to look at the demolition of the shops And I saw the houses sitting on the road behind Made of kiss-marked flettons With UPVC and aluminium additions There was something there all of a sudden About your far away house I want to try and get to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52,69,58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-912","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-memories","category-poetic-thoughts","category-writing"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zogue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/912","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zogue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zogue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zogue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zogue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=912"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.zogue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/912\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":923,"href":"https:\/\/www.zogue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/912\/revisions\/923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zogue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zogue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zogue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}