{"id":1357,"date":"2023-12-04T11:56:01","date_gmt":"2023-12-04T11:56:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bronwengriff.co.uk\/?page_id=1357"},"modified":"2023-12-04T12:02:44","modified_gmt":"2023-12-04T12:02:44","slug":"city","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/bronwengriff.co.uk\/?page_id=1357","title":{"rendered":"City"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bronwengriff.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/London-scaled.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[1357]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1360\" src=\"http:\/\/bronwengriff.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/London-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/bronwengriff.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/London-225x300.jpg 225w, http:\/\/bronwengriff.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/London-768x1024.jpg 768w, http:\/\/bronwengriff.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/London-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, http:\/\/bronwengriff.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/London-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, http:\/\/bronwengriff.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/London-scaled.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>City 1<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The woman cannot contain her shoe. She shakes it off and frowns. Her shoe is flat-heeled, patent leather and black, its trim gold like the early morning sun. She passes the smoking young men, who stand hunched as if afraid of the city; these men who wear old leather jackets and chequered scarves. None of them are tall; they talk together as the woman in the shiny shoes passes by, as the sun climbs in the sky and the shadows move across the square.<\/p>\n<p><strong>City 2<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>There are people on the streets early morning young men with the last hope in their eyes and a cigarette between their fingers. They gather in groups on the low wall outside the gallery listening to the traffic and watching the moving shadows.<\/p>\n<p><strong>City 3<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The city gathers the people of the lost under its bridges, behind the darkness of buildings and in the places I cannot see. It gathers them at night in its cold, dark cloak and spits them out onto its squares, its pavements and stations for us to hurry by.<\/p>\n<p><strong>City 4<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The city is a single magpie, an old church with a clock. Red cranes high in the sky, twenty brick chimney pots, nine satellite dishes, the struts of a railway bridge, the new built on the remains of the old.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>City 1 The woman cannot contain her shoe. She shakes it off and frowns. Her shoe is flat-heeled, patent leather and black, its trim gold like the early morning sun. She passes the smoking young men, who stand hunched as if afraid of the city; these men who wear old leather jackets and chequered scarves. &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bronwengriff.co.uk\/?page_id=1357\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">City<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":1041,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bronwengriff.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1357"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bronwengriff.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bronwengriff.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bronwengriff.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bronwengriff.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1357"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/bronwengriff.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1357\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1361,"href":"http:\/\/bronwengriff.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1357\/revisions\/1361"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bronwengriff.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1041"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bronwengriff.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}