{"id":1625,"date":"2014-05-01T07:41:17","date_gmt":"2014-05-01T07:41:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomwarner.co.uk\/?p=1625"},"modified":"2014-05-06T21:10:56","modified_gmt":"2014-05-06T21:10:56","slug":"the-patron-saint-of-florence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomwarner.co.uk\/?p=1625","title":{"rendered":"The Patron Saint of Florence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright  wp-image-1626\" alt=\"St John the Baptist\" src=\"https:\/\/tomwarner.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/St-John-the-Baptist.jpg\" width=\"208\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Your name comes up between the words;<br \/>\nthinking time in the fluent writing<br \/>\nof narrow streets and stand-up cafes.<br \/>\nIt goes like a bat above a garden,<br \/>\nnot quite quick enough to be unnoticed.<br \/>\nYou are the rumour no one wants to hear,<br \/>\na conspiracy between the receptionist<br \/>\nand whoever else is on the other end.<br \/>\nThey shake you out on a table cloth,<br \/>\nsmooth you from a son\u2019s smart clothes<br \/>\nand stitch you into fraying pockets.<br \/>\nYour name is mentioned at least once<br \/>\nevery half an hour on commercial radio.<br \/>\nIt seems you\u2019ve made headline news<br \/>\nand play some part in the coming weather.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"twttr_follow\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TomWarnerPoet\" onclick=\"_gaq.push(['_trackEvent', 'outbound-article', 'https:\/\/twitter.com\/TomWarnerPoet', 'Follow me']);\" class=\"twitter-follow-button\" data-show-count=\"true\">Follow me<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<script>!function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\";fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document,\"script\",\"twitter-wjs\");<\/script>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>Your name comes up between the words; thinking time in the fluent writing of narrow streets and stand-up cafes. It goes like a bat above a garden, not quite quick enough to be unnoticed. You are the rumour no one wants to hear, a conspiracy between the receptionist and whoever else is on the [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomwarner.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1625"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomwarner.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomwarner.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomwarner.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomwarner.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1625"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/tomwarner.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1625\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1654,"href":"https:\/\/tomwarner.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1625\/revisions\/1654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomwarner.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomwarner.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomwarner.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}