{"id":918,"date":"2012-03-28T13:35:47","date_gmt":"2012-03-28T13:35:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/paulocolmain.com\/?page_id=918"},"modified":"2014-05-14T15:17:10","modified_gmt":"2014-05-14T15:17:10","slug":"la-fheile-bhride-poem","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/paulocolmain.com\/?page_id=918","title":{"rendered":"L\u00e1 Fh\u00e9ile Bhr\u00edde  (poem)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/paulocolmain.com\/?page_id=798\" title=\"Fil\u00ed\u00f3cht as Gaeilge\"> St.Brigids Day <\/a>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<\/strong> (winner <em>Poet\u2019s Podium 1995<\/em>, Samhla\u00edocht Chiarra\u00ed)<\/p>\n<p>The sun awoke us.<br \/>\nLike a fanfare<br \/>\nor a burst of wild laughter.<br \/>\nPlayfully.<br \/>\nUnfamiliar.<br \/>\nSpilling in along the floor,<br \/>\nSplashing up the walls,<br \/>\nStreaming through the ever-open door.<\/p>\n<p>We didn&#8217;t know at first, what was happening,<br \/>\nfailed to recognise the bright clamour of the sun.<br \/>\nAnd then we remembered the words<br \/>\nThat you, druidlike, had spoken:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Sun will come back on St.Brigid\u2019s Day.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>And a welling of Hope,<br \/>\nPagan and Pure,<br \/>\nCame rising inside us,<br \/>\nSitting in bed,<br \/>\nBrigid or Dan\u00fa,<br \/>\nThe Winter defeated:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Sun will come back on St.Brigid\u2019s Day.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 St.Brigids Day \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 (winner Poet\u2019s Podium 1995, Samhla\u00edocht Chiarra\u00ed) The sun awoke us. Like a fanfare or a burst of wild laughter. Playfully. Unfamiliar. Spilling in along the floor, Splashing up the walls, Streaming through &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/paulocolmain.com\/?page_id=918\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":903,"menu_order":7,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"spay_email":""},"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P36zMW-eO","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulocolmain.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/918"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulocolmain.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulocolmain.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulocolmain.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulocolmain.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=918"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/paulocolmain.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/918\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1887,"href":"https:\/\/paulocolmain.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/918\/revisions\/1887"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulocolmain.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/903"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulocolmain.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}