{"id":1586,"date":"2015-04-07T03:00:38","date_gmt":"2015-04-07T03:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.writingsinrhyme.com\/?p=1586"},"modified":"2016-12-10T06:00:33","modified_gmt":"2016-12-10T06:00:33","slug":"two-magpies-at-kilcormac","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/two-magpies-at-kilcormac\/","title":{"rendered":"Two Magpies at Kilcormac"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"The<\/a>
The bus stop in Kilcormac in Offaly (Screengrab from Google Streetview)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Two magpies to the sky took flight
\nI passed by to Birr on the bus
\nJoy up ahead but not here yet
\nNatures oracles speak to us.<\/p>\n

Maybe but a foolish piseog
\nTo give it no heed maybe we aught
\nBut in times of trouble
\nThey give the passer by the nice thought…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Two magpies to the sky took flight I passed by to Birr on the bus Joy up ahead but not here yet Natures oracles speak to us. Maybe but a foolish piseog To give it no heed maybe we aught But in times of trouble They give the passer by …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[152,169],"tags":[3394,762,2353,1751,3395,3393,1746,3397,3396,918,1748],"class_list":["post-1586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birr","category-myths-and-tales","tag-ballyboy","tag-bird","tag-birr","tag-journey","tag-kearns-bus","tag-kilcormac","tag-magpie","tag-magpie-superstitions","tag-musing-through-a-bus-window","tag-offaly","tag-piseog","column","twocol"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7EI4f-pA","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1647,"url":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/two-magpies-lough-atalia\/","url_meta":{"origin":1586,"position":0},"title":"Two Magpies – Lough Atalia","author":"Tom\u00e1s \u00d3 C\u00e1rthaigh","date":"20th April 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"Before me from the railtrack a magpie few Alone over the lake to trees Another for sorrow, of the piseog I thought: Superstition the mind does sieze! 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