{"id":630,"date":"2016-09-28T15:18:47","date_gmt":"2016-09-28T15:18:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.sunderland.ac.uk\/seagullcity\/?page_id=630"},"modified":"2016-09-28T15:18:47","modified_gmt":"2016-09-28T15:18:47","slug":"watching-and-waiting","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/wp.sunderland.ac.uk\/seagullcity\/watching-and-waiting\/","title":{"rendered":"Watching and Waiting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>21<sup>st<\/sup> June<\/p>\n<p>Images of the sea are easy up here, high, images of the sea are what I come for, what I seize upon. What I crave are the long horizons, flat and steel-grey; sometimes a line, a rigid bar, <u>though shalt not pass:<\/u> sometimes only a smudge, a blur where sky and water meet and meld with no distinction. Sailors and seagulls bear each others\u2019 souls and nothing is fixed or certain.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, he is gone my son is gone: and the tug of that is a tidal tug, it runs me in and out, and has a hidden inexorable strength, turning and returning daily.<\/p>\n<p>Every day at first light, I come up to the point here carrying my basket. This is my situation, and I inhabit it: I spread my blanket, I lay out my maps and charts, I erect my telescope and I watch the sea.<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes I think that the sea watches me also, but that is only fancy. I am not mad, but I could learn to be.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>21st June Images of the sea are easy up here, high, images of the sea are what I come for, what I seize upon. What I crave are the long horizons, flat and steel-grey; sometimes a line, a rigid bar, though shalt not pass: sometimes only a smudge, a blur where sky and water meet [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-630","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.sunderland.ac.uk\/seagullcity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/630","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.sunderland.ac.uk\/seagullcity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.sunderland.ac.uk\/seagullcity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.sunderland.ac.uk\/seagullcity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.sunderland.ac.uk\/seagullcity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=630"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wp.sunderland.ac.uk\/seagullcity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/630\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":632,"href":"https:\/\/wp.sunderland.ac.uk\/seagullcity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/630\/revisions\/632"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.sunderland.ac.uk\/seagullcity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}