{"id":284,"date":"2023-03-09T00:41:39","date_gmt":"2023-03-09T00:41:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flysheet.org\/?p=284"},"modified":"2023-12-22T09:53:16","modified_gmt":"2023-12-22T09:53:16","slug":"the-firewood-poem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flysheet.org\/index.php\/2023\/03\/09\/the-firewood-poem\/","title":{"rendered":"The Firewood Poem"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry\">\n<div>\n<p>Beech-wood fires burn bright and clear<br \/>\nIf the logs are kept a year;<br \/>\nStore your beech for Christmastide<br \/>\nWith new-cut holly laid beside;<br \/>\nChestnut\u2019s only good, they say,<br \/>\nIf for years \u2019tis stored away;<br \/>\nBirch and fir-wood burn too fast<br \/>\nBlaze too bright and do not last;<br \/>\nFlames from larch will shoot up high,<br \/>\nDangerously the sparks will fly;<br \/>\nBut ash-wood green and ash-wood brown<br \/>\nAre fit for a Queen with a golden crown.<\/p>\n<p>Oaken logs, if dry and old,<br \/>\nKeep away the winter\u2019s cold;<br \/>\nPoplar gives a bitter smoke,<br \/>\nFills your eyes and makes you choke;<br \/>\nElm-wood burns like churchyard mould,<br \/>\nE\u2019en the very flames are cold;<br \/>\nHawthorn bakes the sweetest bread &#8211;<br \/>\nSo it is in Ireland said;<br \/>\nApple-wood will scent the room,<br \/>\nPear-wood smells like flowers in bloom;<br \/>\nBut ash-wood wet and ash-wood dry<br \/>\nA King may warm his slippers by.<\/p>\n<p><i>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong><\/i>Celia Congreve<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beech-wood fires burn bright and clear If the logs are kept a year; Store your beech for Christmastide With new-cut holly laid beside; Chestnut\u2019s only good, they say, If for years \u2019tis stored away; Birch and fir-wood burn too fast Blaze too bright and do not last; Flames from larch will shoot up high, Dangerously&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":245,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-poems"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flysheet.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flysheet.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flysheet.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flysheet.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flysheet.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=284"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/flysheet.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":285,"href":"https:\/\/flysheet.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284\/revisions\/285"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flysheet.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flysheet.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flysheet.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flysheet.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}