{"id":1470,"date":"2013-08-31T16:57:24","date_gmt":"2013-08-31T08:57:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nolligan.co.uk\/SU\/?p=1470"},"modified":"2021-12-01T10:26:15","modified_gmt":"2021-12-01T02:26:15","slug":"turf-cutting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.nolligan.ie\/SU\/turf-cutting\/","title":{"rendered":"Turf Cutting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nolligan.co.uk\/SU\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/turf-Cutting.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1471\" alt=\"turf Cutting\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nolligan.co.uk\/SU\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/turf-Cutting.jpg\" width=\"700\" height=\"467\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nolligan.ie\/SU\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/turf-Cutting.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.nolligan.ie\/SU\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/turf-Cutting-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.nolligan.ie\/SU\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/turf-Cutting-449x300.jpg 449w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>My grandfather cut more turf in a day<br \/>\nThan any other man on Toner&#8217;s bog.<br \/>\nOnce I carried him milk in a bottle<br \/>\nCorked sloppily with paper. He straightened up<br \/>\nTo drink it, then fell to right away<\/p>\n<p>Nicking and slicing neatly, heaving sods<br \/>\nOver his shoulder, going down and down<br \/>\nFor the good turf. Digging.<\/p>\n<p>The cold smell of potato mould, the squelch and slap<br \/>\nOf soggy peat, the curt cuts of an edge<br \/>\nThrough living roots awaken in my head.<br \/>\nBut I&#8217;ve no spade to follow men like them.<\/p>\n<p>Between my finger and my thumb<br \/>\nThe squat pen rests.<br \/>\nI&#8217;ll dig with it.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>from &#8220;Digging&#8221;,\u00a0<i>Death of a Naturalist<\/i>\u00a0(1966)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; My grandfather cut more turf in a day Than any other man on Toner&#8217;s bog. Once I carried him milk in a bottle Corked sloppily with paper. He straightened up To drink it, then fell to right away Nicking &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nolligan.ie\/SU\/turf-cutting\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,14],"tags":[27,67],"class_list":["post-1470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-quote","hentry","category-eire","category-poetry","tag-eire","tag-poetry","post_format-post-format-quote"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nolligan.ie\/SU\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1470","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nolligan.ie\/SU\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nolligan.ie\/SU\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nolligan.ie\/SU\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nolligan.ie\/SU\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1470"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.nolligan.ie\/SU\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1470\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1473,"href":"http:\/\/www.nolligan.ie\/SU\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1470\/revisions\/1473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nolligan.ie\/SU\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nolligan.ie\/SU\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nolligan.ie\/SU\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}