{"id":8487,"date":"2026-05-15T09:37:15","date_gmt":"2026-05-15T08:37:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jonarthur.co.uk\/?p=8487"},"modified":"2026-06-25T16:49:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-25T15:49:11","slug":"its-raining-outside","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jonarthur.co.uk\/?p=8487","title":{"rendered":"It\u2019s raining outside"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-cover is-light\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"494\" height=\"800\" class=\"wp-block-cover__image-background wp-image-8569 size-large\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jonarthur.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/old-and-cold-and-raining-494x800.jpg\" data-object-fit=\"cover\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.jonarthur.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/old-and-cold-and-raining-494x800.jpg 494w, https:\/\/www.jonarthur.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/old-and-cold-and-raining-185x300.jpg 185w, https:\/\/www.jonarthur.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/old-and-cold-and-raining.jpg 617w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 494px) 100vw, 494px\" \/><span aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-cover__background has-background-dim-80 has-background-dim\" style=\"background-color:#cad0cc\"><\/span><div class=\"wp-block-cover__inner-container is-layout-constrained wp-block-cover-is-layout-constrained\">\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left has-medium-font-size\"><strong><em>It\u2019s cold<br>I\u2019m old<br>And it\u2019s raining outside<br>Short bursts<br>Full day prior<br>Today I suffer<br>I know something\u2019s not right<br>The jabs are relentless<br>And these bruises won\u2019t heal<br>But I just sit<br>And contemplate<br>Distraction\u2019s not the cure<br>But when I drift<br>Procrastinate<br>It numbs the pain<br>Of a flickering mind<br>Like a candle barely lit<br>Forgetting the shadows<br>As I pencil gibberish<br>Staving off the pain<br>For it\u2019s cold<br>I\u2019m old<br>And it\u2019s raining outside<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-cyan-bluish-gray-color has-text-color has-link-color has-small-font-size wp-elements-2e1011d367ee7821634e2db90b0db1f4\"><em><em>Original poetry by Jon Arthur 2026<\/em><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jonarthur.co.uk\/?page_id=8214\" data-type=\"page\" data-id=\"8214\"><em>M<\/em><\/a><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jonarthur.co.uk\/?page_id=8214\" data-type=\"page\" data-id=\"8214\">ore Poems<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Original poetry by Jon Arthur 2026 More Poems<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8570,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[155],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jonarthur.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8487","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jonarthur.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jonarthur.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jonarthur.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jonarthur.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8487"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.jonarthur.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8487\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8571,"href":"https:\/\/www.jonarthur.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8487\/revisions\/8571"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jonarthur.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jonarthur.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jonarthur.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jonarthur.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}