{"id":306,"date":"2021-06-18T09:46:13","date_gmt":"2021-06-18T13:46:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.ryerson.ca\/claudemckay\/?post_type=chapter&#038;p=306"},"modified":"2022-02-03T09:12:50","modified_gmt":"2022-02-03T14:12:50","slug":"north-and-south","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/claudemckay\/chapter\/north-and-south\/","title":{"raw":"North and South","rendered":"North and South"},"content":{"raw":"O sweet are tropic lands for waking dreams!\r\nThere time and life move lazily along.\r\nThere by the banks of blue-and-silver streams\r\nGrass-sheltered crickets chirp incessant song,\r\nGay-colored lizards loll all through the day,\r\nTheir tongues outstretched for careless little flies,\r\nAnd swarthy children in the fields at play,\r\nLook upward laughing at the smiling skies.\r\nA breath of idleness is in the air\r\nThat casts a subtle spell upon all things,\r\nAnd love and mating-time are everywhere,\r\nAnd wonder to life\u2019s commonplaces clings.\r\nThe fluttering humming-bird darts through the trees\r\nAnd dips his long beak in the big bell-flowers,\r\nThe leisured buzzard floats upon the breeze,\r\nRiding a crescent cloud for endless hours,\r\nThe sea beats softly on the emerald strands\u2014\r\nO sweet for quiet dreams are tropic lands!","rendered":"<p>O sweet are tropic lands for waking dreams!<br \/>\nThere time and life move lazily along.<br \/>\nThere by the banks of blue-and-silver streams<br \/>\nGrass-sheltered crickets chirp incessant song,<br \/>\nGay-colored lizards loll all through the day,<br \/>\nTheir tongues outstretched for careless little flies,<br \/>\nAnd swarthy children in the fields at play,<br \/>\nLook upward laughing at the smiling skies.<br \/>\nA breath of idleness is in the air<br \/>\nThat casts a subtle spell upon all things,<br \/>\nAnd love and mating-time are everywhere,<br \/>\nAnd wonder to life\u2019s commonplaces clings.<br \/>\nThe fluttering humming-bird darts through the trees<br \/>\nAnd dips his long beak in the big bell-flowers,<br \/>\nThe leisured buzzard floats upon the breeze,<br \/>\nRiding a crescent cloud for endless hours,<br \/>\nThe sea beats softly on the emerald strands\u2014<br \/>\nO sweet for quiet dreams are tropic lands!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":251,"menu_order":12,"template":"","meta":{"pb_show_title":"on","pb_short_title":"","pb_subtitle":"","pb_authors":[],"pb_section_license":""},"chapter-type":[48],"contributor":[],"license":[],"class_list":["post-306","chapter","type-chapter","status-publish","hentry","chapter-type-numberless"],"part":279,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/claudemckay\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/306","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/claudemckay\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/claudemckay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/chapter"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/claudemckay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/251"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/claudemckay\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/306\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":307,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/claudemckay\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/306\/revisions\/307"}],"part":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/claudemckay\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/parts\/279"}],"metadata":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/claudemckay\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/306\/metadata\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/claudemckay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"chapter-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/claudemckay\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapter-type?post=306"},{"taxonomy":"contributor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/claudemckay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/contributor?post=306"},{"taxonomy":"license","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/claudemckay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/license?post=306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}