{"id":344876,"date":"2018-01-22T02:58:31","date_gmt":"2018-01-22T01:58:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/as-the-sun-sets-upon-the-cornish-ramshackle-rooftops\/"},"modified":"2018-01-22T02:58:31","modified_gmt":"2018-01-22T01:58:31","slug":"as-the-sun-sets-upon-the-cornish-ramshackle-rooftops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/as-the-sun-sets-upon-the-cornish-ramshackle-rooftops\/","title":{"rendered":"As The Sun Sets Upon The Cornish Ramshackle Rooftops"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"post-75762\">\n<p class=\"byline\">by Paul Tristram \/ January 21st, 2018<\/p>\n<div class=\"entry\">\n<p>I crest that gentle, old, familiar hill,<br \/>and see, at last, the harbour<br \/>glowing in the distance.<br \/>She\u2019s a-waiting, patiently,<br \/>upon one of those little houseboats<br \/>for my, long overdue, return.<br \/>Off-grid we live, Water Rovers,<br \/>moving from estuary to muddy bank,<br \/>all of the year \u2018round,<br \/>apart from these three Winter months,<br \/>where we flock together,<br \/>deep in the curving arm<br \/>of this natural, wooded waterline.<br \/>Both front pockets a-jingling and a-jangling<br \/>with busked pennies, farthings and shillings.<br \/>I throw a whistle out<br \/>to accompany the swagger of my traipse.<br \/>I shift and adjust the bindle upon my back,<br \/>she\u2019ll be as pleased as punch,<br \/>for I\u2019ve scored four warm baby blankets<br \/>ready for the new arrival.<br \/>I kiss goodbye to the frothy dregs<br \/>of the flagon which has kept me company,<br \/>at bottom road kerbside.<br \/>Then cross the humpback bridge,<br \/>which hides out of sight,<br \/>behind the old granite Vicarage.<br \/>Where I start to hear the hustle and bustle,<br \/>laughter and singing<br \/>of the carefree River Folk,<br \/>with tankards full, and fires burning,<br \/>a-welcoming in the brand new evening.<\/p>\n<p class=\"postmeta\">This article was posted on Sunday, January 21st, 2018 at 8:04am and is filed under <a href=\"https:\/\/dissidentvoice.org\/category\/poetry\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Poetry<\/a>. <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dissidentvoice.org\/2018\/01\/as-the-sun-sets-upon-the-cornish-ramshackle-rooftops\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Paul Tristram \/ January 21st, 2018 I crest that gentle, old, familiar hill,and see, at last, the harbourglowing in the distance.She\u2019s a-waiting, patiently,upon one of those little houseboatsfor my, long overdue, return.Off-grid we live, Water Rovers,moving from estuary to muddy bank,all of the year \u2018round,apart from these three Winter months,where we flock together,deep in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2525,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-344876","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344876","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2525"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=344876"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344876\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=344876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=344876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=344876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}