{"id":15875,"date":"2005-06-01T19:00:46","date_gmt":"2005-06-01T19:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/republicancommunist.org\/blog\/?p=15875"},"modified":"2021-02-07T19:05:50","modified_gmt":"2021-02-07T19:05:50","slug":"leaves-in-leith","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/republicancommunist.org\/blog\/2005\/06\/01\/leaves-in-leith\/","title":{"rendered":"Leaves In Leith"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>A clump of leaves lay by the road-side;<\/li>\n<li>crisp, hiddled and seemingly sedate;<\/li>\n<li>a soft patch-work quilt of golden rags.<\/li>\n<li><\/li>\n<li>And as I walked on, a cold north wind,<\/li>\n<li>fierce and biting in the gutter,<\/li>\n<li>scattered the leaves in all directions<\/li>\n<li><\/li>\n<li>And I saw demonstrators running<\/li>\n<li>in Ramallah, Hebron and Nablus,<\/li>\n<li>the occupying wind chasing them.<\/li>\n<li><\/li>\n<li>And I stood there with these thoughts swirling<\/li>\n<li>as the sudden gust ran out of puff<\/li>\n<li>and the casualties lay strewn around.<\/li>\n<li><\/li>\n<li>And I stood there and waited, looking<\/li>\n<li>at the abandoned leaves lying there;<\/li>\n<li>a street in Leith now in the West Bank.<\/li>\n<li><\/li>\n<li>And it is only now I can say<\/li>\n<li>I am pleased I did, for I witnessed<\/li>\n<li>a second wind that blew them all back.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A clump of leaves lay by the road-side; crisp, hiddled and seemingly sedate; a soft patch-work quilt of golden rags. And as I walked on, a cold north wind, fierce and biting in the gutter, scattered the leaves in all directions And I saw demonstrators running in Ramallah, Hebron and Nablus, the occupying wind chasing&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8785],"tags":[249],"class_list":["post-15875","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-issue-10","tag-author-jim-aitken"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"views":1510,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/republicancommunist.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15875","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/republicancommunist.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/republicancommunist.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/republicancommunist.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/republicancommunist.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15875"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/republicancommunist.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15875\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15876,"href":"http:\/\/republicancommunist.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15875\/revisions\/15876"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/republicancommunist.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/republicancommunist.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/republicancommunist.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}