{"id":8074,"date":"2017-10-22T16:20:50","date_gmt":"2017-10-22T15:20:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.robertpeake.com\/?p=8074"},"modified":"2017-10-22T16:49:50","modified_gmt":"2017-10-22T15:49:50","slug":"hertfordshire-songs-e-book-available-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.robertpeake.com\/archives\/8074-hertfordshire-songs-e-book-available-now.html","title":{"rendered":"Hertfordshire Songs E-Book Available Now"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.robertpeake.com\/hertfordshire-songs\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.robertpeake.com\/files\/2017\/10\/hs_cover-188x300.jpg\" alt=\"Hertfordshire Songs Cover\" width=\"188\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-8065\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.robertpeake.com\/files\/2017\/10\/hs_cover-188x300.jpg 188w, https:\/\/www.robertpeake.com\/files\/2017\/10\/hs_cover-768x1229.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.robertpeake.com\/files\/2017\/10\/hs_cover-640x1024.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.robertpeake.com\/files\/2017\/10\/hs_cover-375x600.jpg 375w, https:\/\/www.robertpeake.com\/files\/2017\/10\/hs_cover.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 188px) 100vw, 188px\" \/><\/a>I moved to the English countryside from London just over five years ago, and haven&#8217;t looked back.<\/p>\n<p>As you can imagine, the quirks of suburban and pastoral England have inspired quite a few poems, including a long poem sequence in the style of the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Crown_of_sonnets\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">heroic crown of sonnets<\/a>, reminiscent of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Metro-Land_(1973_film)\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sir John Betjeman\u2019s Metro-Land<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Because these poems feel like their own entity, I have decided to make them available as an e-book. They are available on my website to download for just \u00a30.99 (about $1.31).<\/p>\n<p>These poems whisk you along from raves to roundabouts, weirs to war memorials&#8211;a kind of poetic tour, if you like, of what I find most curious and endearing about the place I now call home.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.robertpeake.com\/hertfordshire-songs\"><strong>Click here to order your copy or learn more.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I moved to the English countryside from London just over five years ago, and haven&#8217;t looked back. As you can imagine, the quirks of suburban and pastoral England have inspired quite a few poems, including a long poem sequence in the style of the heroic crown of sonnets, reminiscent of Sir John Betjeman\u2019s Metro-Land. Because &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.robertpeake.com\/archives\/8074-hertfordshire-songs-e-book-available-now.html\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Hertfordshire Songs E-Book Available Now<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8081,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[18,1268,5,8],"tags":[113,219,232,299],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertpeake.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8074"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertpeake.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertpeake.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertpeake.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertpeake.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8074"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertpeake.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8074\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertpeake.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8081"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertpeake.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertpeake.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertpeake.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}