{"id":968,"date":"2019-02-18T06:41:17","date_gmt":"2019-02-18T06:41:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thepoetryoftonygraham.com\/?p=968"},"modified":"2020-02-24T19:27:36","modified_gmt":"2020-02-24T19:27:36","slug":"breakfast-with-a-view","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thepoetryoftonygraham.com\/?p=968","title":{"rendered":"Breakfast With A View"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><em>Perhaps getting up every morning at sparrows fart, just so you can sit in seemingly endless queues of traffic isn&#8217;t the best way to start your day after all&#8230;&#8230;..<\/em> <\/strong><\/p><p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-1532\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thepoetryoftonygraham.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/IMG_7300-with-frame.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_7300 with frame\" width=\"1019\" height=\"564\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.thepoetryoftonygraham.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/IMG_7300-with-frame.jpg 3455w, http:\/\/www.thepoetryoftonygraham.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/IMG_7300-with-frame-300x166.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.thepoetryoftonygraham.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/IMG_7300-with-frame-768x425.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.thepoetryoftonygraham.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/IMG_7300-with-frame-644x357.jpg 644w, http:\/\/www.thepoetryoftonygraham.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/IMG_7300-with-frame-1200x664.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1019px) 100vw, 1019px\" \/><\/p><p style=\"text-align: center;\">Imagine starting each day<br \/>In the way that we do,<br \/>Breakfast on a stoep<br \/>A great mountain view;<br \/>Sitting there chatting,<br \/>No need to be rushed,<br \/>The smell of fresh coffee,<br \/>As the plunger is pushed.<br \/>Fresh creamy yoghurt,<br \/>Nice and thick, not too runny<br \/>And drizzled all over,<br \/>With local raw honey.<br \/>Eggs sometimes scrambled,<br \/>As the routine gets changed,<br \/>With tomatoes and bacon<br \/>For the yoghurt exchanged.<br \/>Our day being planned,<br \/>Or then again not,<br \/>Discussing the weather,<br \/>Is it going to be hot?<br \/>Watching orioles and drongos<br \/>At the fountain drinking,<br \/>Planning garden improvements,<br \/>Gets the grey matter thinking.<br \/>Just chilling out<br \/>Before the day has begun,<br \/>As we sit on our stoep feeling<br \/>Life\u2019s jackpot&#8217;s been won.<\/p><div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"  wp-image-2613 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thepoetryoftonygraham.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/TOOTG-Copyright-2016-2020-01.jpg\" alt=\"TOOTG Copyright 2016-2020 01\" width=\"158\" height=\"95\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.thepoetryoftonygraham.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/TOOTG-Copyright-2016-2020-01.jpg 5000w, http:\/\/www.thepoetryoftonygraham.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/TOOTG-Copyright-2016-2020-01-300x180.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.thepoetryoftonygraham.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/TOOTG-Copyright-2016-2020-01-768x461.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.thepoetryoftonygraham.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/TOOTG-Copyright-2016-2020-01-644x386.jpg 644w, http:\/\/www.thepoetryoftonygraham.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/TOOTG-Copyright-2016-2020-01-1200x720.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 158px) 100vw, 158px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Perhaps getting up every morning at sparrows fart, just so you can sit in seemingly endless queues of traffic isn&#8217;t the best way to start your day after all&#8230;&#8230;.. Imagine starting each dayIn the way that we do,Breakfast on a stoepA great mountain view;Sitting there chatting,No need to be rushed,The&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.thepoetryoftonygraham.com\/?p=968\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[315],"tags":[34,226,20,148,11,10,30,12,193,31,227],"class_list":["post-968","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-at-stone-cottage","tag-at-home","tag-breakfast","tag-mother-nature","tag-mountain","tag-poems","tag-poetry","tag-reflecting","tag-rhymes","tag-the-karoo","tag-verse","tag-yoghurt"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/phbx6B-fC","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thepoetryoftonygraham.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/968","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thepoetryoftonygraham.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thepoetryoftonygraham.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thepoetryoftonygraham.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thepoetryoftonygraham.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=968"}],"version-history":[{"count":29,"href":"http:\/\/www.thepoetryoftonygraham.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/968\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2715,"href":"http:\/\/www.thepoetryoftonygraham.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/968\/revisions\/2715"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thepoetryoftonygraham.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thepoetryoftonygraham.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thepoetryoftonygraham.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}