{"id":161,"date":"2021-04-24T14:26:28","date_gmt":"2021-04-24T14:26:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/demo-43\/?page_id=161"},"modified":"2022-01-09T09:32:03","modified_gmt":"2022-01-09T09:32:03","slug":"lockdown-blues","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/oxfordquaker.com\/newsletter\/april-2021\/lockdown-blues\/","title":{"rendered":"Lockdown Blues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p4\" style=\"text-align: right;\"><b>Charles E Worth<br \/>\n<\/b>February 2021<\/p>\n<p class=\"p5\">A theatre with no play<br \/>\nA will but not a way<br \/>\nA potter without clay<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Silver that\u2019s lost its shine<br \/>\nA weekend with no red wine<br \/>\nAn empire in decline<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">A china shop with a bull<br \/>\nA glass that\u2019s not half full<br \/>\nA push instead of a pull<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">A car with a tyre that\u2019s flat<br \/>\nA mouse that\u2019s just met a cat<br \/>\nThe Queen not wearing a hat<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">A picnic in the rain<br \/>\nNo seats free on the train<br \/>\nA backside with a pain<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Hot chocolate without mugs<br \/>\nA lettuce full of slugs<br \/>\nGrandchildren with no hugs<\/p>\n<hr>\n<figure id=\"attachment_779\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-779\" style=\"width: 277px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/oxfordquaker.com\/newsletter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Flat-Tire-in-Lockdown-Blued-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-779\" src=\"https:\/\/oxfordquaker.com\/newsletter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Flat-Tire-in-Lockdown-Blued-1-277x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"277\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/oxfordquaker.com\/newsletter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Flat-Tire-in-Lockdown-Blued-1-277x300.jpg 277w, https:\/\/oxfordquaker.com\/newsletter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Flat-Tire-in-Lockdown-Blued-1.jpg 720w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 277px) 100vw, 277px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-779\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo by M. Hughey<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<hr>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a class=\"fasc-button fasc-size-medium fasc-type-glossy fasc-rounded-medium fasc-ico-before dashicons-arrow-up-alt fasc-style-bold\" style=\"background-color: #0315a3; color: #ffffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/oxfordquaker.com\/newsletter\/april-2021\/\">Back to April 2021 Newsletter Main Page<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><em>Forty-Three<\/em> e-Newsletter \u2022 Number 504 \u2022 April 2021<br \/>\n<\/strong>Oxford Friends Meeting<br \/>\n43 St Giles, Oxford OX1 3LW<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"mailto:newsletter@oxfordquakers.org\">newsletter@oxfordquakers.org<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Charles E Worth February 2021 A theatre with no play A will but not a way A potter without clay Silver that\u2019s lost its shine A weekend with no red wine An empire in decline A china shop with a bull A glass that\u2019s not half full A push instead of a pull A car &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/oxfordquaker.com\/newsletter\/april-2021\/lockdown-blues\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Lockdown Blues<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":50,"featured_media":0,"parent":139,"menu_order":155,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-161","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oxfordquaker.com\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oxfordquaker.com\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oxfordquaker.com\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oxfordquaker.com\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/50"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oxfordquaker.com\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=161"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/oxfordquaker.com\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/161\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1222,"href":"https:\/\/oxfordquaker.com\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/161\/revisions\/1222"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oxfordquaker.com\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oxfordquaker.com\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oxfordquaker.com\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oxfordquaker.com\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}