{"id":1285,"date":"2011-05-10T18:34:31","date_gmt":"2011-05-10T18:34:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/?p=1285"},"modified":"2011-08-18T22:15:37","modified_gmt":"2011-08-18T22:15:37","slug":"a-sonnet-for-the-royal-wedding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/index.php\/2011\/05\/a-sonnet-for-the-royal-wedding\/","title":{"rendered":"A Sonnet for the Royal Wedding"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><em>A mug, a plate, their mugs on mugs placate<br \/>\ntheir thugs, the bugs who fornicate and try<br \/>\ntheir drugs; the State&#8217;s dough released to circulate<br \/>\nso young love&#8217;s terror is to fructify.<br \/>\nOne distorted face shan&#8217;t placate lust&#8217;s will<br \/>\nnor void the ills of rabid republicans;<br \/>\nthe public, loudly cheering, foot the bill.<br \/>\nThe breaking hearts of young Americans.<br \/>\nKate&#8217;s barely concealed delight and glee<br \/>\nnow the blood-line has pimmed to a hooked cross.<br \/>\nTough minds rue awake a republic&#8217;s spree,<br \/>\nthe sunrise splits the sky. Dawn as divorce<br \/>\nand other dirty words embroil the tongue:<br \/>\nthen silence deploys the breathing of a single lung.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This poem was written collaboratively to mark the wedding of Wills and Kate. Every author who has published a collection with Penned in the Margins* was asked to contribute one line. They were given a rhyme word, and were allowed to see the line immediately preceding theirs.\u00a0[Cavaliers <em>and<\/em> roundheads were invited\u00a0to participate.]<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: xx-small;\">* James Wilkes was unable to participate.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A mug, a plate, their mugs on mugs placate their thugs, the bugs who fornicate and try their drugs; the State&#8217;s dough released to circulate so young love&#8217;s terror is to fructify. One distorted face shan&#8217;t placate lust&#8217;s will nor void the ills of rabid republicans; the public, loudly cheering, foot the bill. The breaking [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1285"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1285"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1285\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1287,"href":"https:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1285\/revisions\/1287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}