{"id":1846,"date":"2021-03-24T13:52:03","date_gmt":"2021-03-24T13:52:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/pk\/poetryforall\/?page_id=1846"},"modified":"2021-03-31T14:47:22","modified_gmt":"2021-03-31T13:47:22","slug":"aquaman","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/pk\/poetryforall\/my-beast\/aquaman\/","title":{"rendered":"Aquaman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Aquaman<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:2,&quot;335551620&quot;:2,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">When\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">I was<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0little, I worried about\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">swimming<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">.<\/span><br \/>\n<span data-contrast=\"auto\">As the infamous \u2018deep end\u2019\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">drew closer, I swam to the side and cling on the side.<\/span><br \/>\n<span data-contrast=\"auto\">Though I tried, the infinite depths of the \u2018deep\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">end\u2019.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:2,&quot;335551620&quot;:2,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">But one day, I the safe calm waters of the \u2018shallow end\u2019, I saw a glint at the bottom.\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">I<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0dived down and saw it wa<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">s a trident, and I picked it up.<\/span><br \/>\n<span data-contrast=\"auto\">Suddenly I swam easier, and got an overwhelming urge,\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">to go to the abyss of the deep end.<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:2,&quot;335551620&quot;:2,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">It wasn\u2019t that bad\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">afterall<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">, and now, I see a boy clinging to the side of the pool, and tell him, the trident\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">is at the shallow end.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:2,&quot;335551620&quot;:2,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>By Robert Grant<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aquaman\u00a0 When\u00a0I was\u00a0little, I worried about\u00a0swimming. As the infamous \u2018deep end\u2019\u00a0drew closer, I swam to the side and cling on the side. Though I tried, the infinite depths of the \u2018deep\u00a0end\u2019.\u00a0 But one day, I the safe calm waters of the \u2018shallow end\u2019, I saw a glint at the bottom.\u00a0I\u00a0dived down and saw it was &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/pk\/poetryforall\/my-beast\/aquaman\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Aquaman<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10565,"featured_media":0,"parent":1842,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1846","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/pk\/poetryforall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1846","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/pk\/poetryforall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/pk\/poetryforall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/pk\/poetryforall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10565"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/pk\/poetryforall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1846"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/pk\/poetryforall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1846\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1917,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/pk\/poetryforall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1846\/revisions\/1917"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/pk\/poetryforall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1842"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/pk\/poetryforall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}