{"id":2900,"date":"2019-05-28T14:09:04","date_gmt":"2019-05-28T13:09:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/archive.nclacommunity.org\/content\/?p=2900"},"modified":"2019-05-28T14:09:04","modified_gmt":"2019-05-28T13:09:04","slug":"the-wait-sydney-wright-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/archive.nclacommunity.org\/content\/?p=2900","title":{"rendered":"The Wait <h6> Sydney Wright<\/h6>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><strong>The Wait<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\n<p class=\"p2\">We wait. We wait<br \/>\nFor the turn of a blank page<br \/>\nAt the end of a book.<br \/>\nFor the final chapter that<br \/>\nFell to the press of a<br \/>\nBackspace.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">Space, empty space beckons,<br \/>\nHanging around the<br \/>\nCorner, like a dewdrop<br \/>\nDangling from a window ledge.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">We wait to hear<br \/>\nThe distant sound of a bucket,<br \/>\nComing to rest far from the<br \/>\nHome from which it was kicked,<br \/>\nTo hear the silence as it falls still<br \/>\nTo hear it drowned out by life.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8216;The Wait&#8217;<\/em>\u00a0w<em>as a winning poem<\/em><em>\u00a0in the 2019 Newcastle Young People&#8217;s Poetry Competition.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Wait We wait. We wait For the turn of a blank page At the end of a book. For the final chapter that Fell&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2831,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[604,605,388,603,59],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/archive.nclacommunity.org\/content\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2900"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/archive.nclacommunity.org\/content\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/archive.nclacommunity.org\/content\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/archive.nclacommunity.org\/content\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/archive.nclacommunity.org\/content\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2900"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/archive.nclacommunity.org\/content\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2900\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2901,"href":"http:\/\/archive.nclacommunity.org\/content\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2900\/revisions\/2901"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/archive.nclacommunity.org\/content\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/archive.nclacommunity.org\/content\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/archive.nclacommunity.org\/content\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/archive.nclacommunity.org\/content\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}