{"id":19698,"date":"2022-01-14T22:06:05","date_gmt":"2022-01-15T03:06:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/?p=19698"},"modified":"2022-01-14T22:13:38","modified_gmt":"2022-01-15T03:13:38","slug":"episode-511-ghost-ship-and-winter-ice-ridgetown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/?p=19698","title":{"rendered":"EPISODE 511   GHOST SHIP AND WINTER ICE (RIDGETOWN)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>EPISODE 511 &nbsp; THE RIDGETOWN AND WINTER ICE<\/p>\n<div class=\"\"><br class=\"\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"\">alan skeoch<\/div>\n<div class=\"\">jan. 2022<\/div>\n<div class=\"\"><br class=\"\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"\"><br class=\"\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"\">\n<div class=\"c-feature-hd\" style=\"margin: 0px 0px 4px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-size: 22px; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;\">\n<h1 class=\"c-hdgSans_2 c-mix-hdgSans_inline c-hdgSans\" style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-size: 1.75rem; font-style: inherit; font-family: canada-type-gibson; vertical-align: baseline; display: inline; line-height: 1.231;\">Fire and Ice&nbsp;<\/h1>\n<p><button class=\"c-mix-assetAction_textless c-assetAction_triggered_inverted c-assetAction_triggered c-assetAction\" data-view=\"AudioPopupView\" data-popupview-url=\"https:\/\/www.poetryfoundation.org\/play\/77065\" data-popupview-title=\"Fire and Ice\" style=\"background-color: transparent; -webkit-user-select: none; -webkit-appearance: none; overflow: visible; padding: 0px 0px 0px 44px; position: relative; margin: 0px; border: none; color: rgb(136, 136, 136); font-family: canada-type-gibson; font-size: 0.9375rem; font-style: italic; cursor: pointer; height: 31px; width: 31px; line-height: 1.9; vertical-align: bottom;\"><span class=\"u-isVisuallyHidden\" style=\"margin: -1px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; width: 1px; height: 1px; position: absolute; clip: rect(0px, 0px, 0px, 0px); overflow: hidden;\">Launch Audio in a New Window<\/span><span class=\"c-assetAction-trigger\" style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 3px solid rgb(232, 28, 35); font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; height: 31px; width: 31px; position: absolute; right: auto; top: 15.5px; transform: translateY(-50%); background-image: url(\"data:image\/svg+xml;charset=US-ASCII,%3Csvg%20data-name%3D%22Layer%201%22%20xmlns%3D%22http%3A\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg%22%20viewBox%3D%220%200%2011.8%2012.9%22%3E%3Ctitle%3Etri%3C\/title%3E%3Cpath%20data-name%3D%22Polygon%201%22%20d%3D%22M11.8%206.4L0%2012.8V0z%22%20fill%3D%22%23ec1f27%22\/%3E%3C\/svg%3E\"); background-size: 12px; border-top-left-radius: 50%; border-top-right-radius: 50%; border-bottom-right-radius: 50%; border-bottom-left-radius: 50%; left: 0px; background-position: 50% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;\"><\/span><\/button><\/div>\n<div class=\"c-feature-sub_vast c-feature-sub\" style=\"margin: 0px 0px 33px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-size: 22px; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;\">\n<div style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;\" class=\"\"><span class=\"c-txt c-txt_attribution\" style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-size: 0.875rem; font-style: inherit; font-family: canada-type-gibson; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(73, 73, 73); display: inline-block; letter-spacing: 1.4px; text-transform: uppercase;\">BY&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.poetryfoundation.org\/poets\/robert-frost\" style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); transition: color 0.25s cubic-bezier(0.215, 0.61, 0.355, 1);\" class=\"\">ROBERT FROST<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"c-feature-bd\" style=\"margin: 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-size: 1.25rem; font-style: inherit; font-family: adobe-garamond-pro; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.3;\">\n<div class=\"isActive o-poem\" data-view=\"PoemView\" style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; position: relative;\">\n<div style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-indent: -1em;\" class=\"\">Some say the world will end in fire,<br class=\"\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-indent: -1em;\" class=\"\">Some say in ice.<br class=\"\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-indent: -1em;\" class=\"\">From what I\u2019ve tasted of desire<br class=\"\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-indent: -1em;\" class=\"\">I hold with those who favor fire.<br class=\"\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-indent: -1em;\" class=\"\">But if it had to perish twice,<br class=\"\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-indent: -1em;\" class=\"\">I think I know enough of hate<br class=\"\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-indent: -1em;\" class=\"\">To say that for destruction ice<br class=\"\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-indent: -1em;\" class=\"\">Is also great<br class=\"\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-indent: -1em;\" class=\"\">And would suffice.<br class=\"\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"\"><br class=\"\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"\">&#8220;Remember that poem Marjorie?\u201d<\/div>\n<div class=\"\">\u201cYes, today seems like the world will end in ice\u201d<\/div>\n<div class=\"\">\u201cMetaphor for hate\u2026lots of that around below our border&#8221;<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" apple-inline=\"yes\" id=\"C4CEC2E1-6D4C-4304-B73B-DC441806DBD2\" src=\"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/IMG_9982-rotated.jpg\" class=\"\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"\"><br class=\"\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"\">\u201cGood day for ghost ships on Lake Ontario.\u201d<\/div>\n<div class=\"\">\u201cFog snd dark sky\u201d<\/div>\n<div class=\"\">\u201cEverything in black snd grey.\u201d<\/div>\n<div class=\"\">\u201cAnd white and slippery&#8221;<\/div>\n<div class=\"\"><br class=\"\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"\"><br class=\"\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"\"><br class=\"\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"\"><br class=\"\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" apple-inline=\"yes\" id=\"BC790A81-3594-437A-8108-DEB5F759839A\" src=\"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/IMG_9981-rotated.jpg\" class=\"\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"\"><br class=\"\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"\">\u201cI will give you five bucks if you play hop scotch out to the end of those slabs.\u201d<\/div>\n<div class=\"\">\u201cMadness surfacing in a twisted mind.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div class=\"\"><br class=\"\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"\"><br class=\"\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" apple-inline=\"yes\" id=\"385331D9-76A3-4BF1-A844-74161E310C78\" src=\"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/IMG_9978-rotated.jpg\" class=\"\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"\"><br class=\"\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"\">\u201cLook, a ghost ship coming out of the fog.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div class=\"\"><br class=\"\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"\"><br class=\"\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" apple-inline=\"yes\" id=\"BFB8959A-AFD9-496C-97EB-5B0FE21A9EFB\" src=\"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/IMG_9985-rotated.jpg\" class=\"\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"\"><br class=\"\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"\">\u201cI am going to slip and slide my way out on the slabs to get a good picture.\u201d<\/div>\n<div class=\"\">\u201cYou Fathead.\u201d<\/div>\n<div class=\"\">\u201cNeed s story for today\u2019s episode.\u201d<\/div>\n<div class=\"\">\u201cWhat dimwit..no one reads your stories.\u201d<\/div>\n<div class=\"\">\u201cThey must.\u201d<\/div>\n<div class=\"\">\u201cWhy?\u201d<\/div>\n<div class=\"\">\u201cNothing else to do.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div class=\"\"><br class=\"\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" apple-inline=\"yes\" id=\"2902D840-4589-4D03-9AFB-F09DFF423FA1\" src=\"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/9B045EF2-CB8F-4E12-A8A1-F5F9C7AA8BB6-rotated.jpeg\" class=\"\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"\"><br class=\"\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"\">\u201cHoly smoke\u2026.the ghost ship is getting close.<\/div>\n<div class=\"\"><br class=\"\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"\"><br class=\"\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" apple-inline=\"yes\" id=\"81DD2D9F-C835-4D03-A241-7E070EE05334\" src=\"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/PastedGraphic-11.tiff\" class=\"\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"\"><br class=\"\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"\">&#8220;It\u2019s turning.\u201d<\/div>\n<div class=\"\">\u201cHeading for you Alan\u2026get off those rocks and lets get out of here.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div class=\"\"><br class=\"\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" apple-inline=\"yes\" id=\"D7382676-FA55-41B6-AF8B-6D43EF71AE35\" src=\"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/PastedGraphic-12.tiff\" class=\"\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"\"><br class=\"\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"\">\u201cI slipped\u2026ghost ship is getting closer.\u201d<\/div>\n<div class=\"\">\u201cGet up, Alan\u2026!!\u201d<\/div>\n<div class=\"\">\u201cCan\u2019t my foot is caught\u2026doomed&#8221;<\/div>\n<div class=\"\"><br class=\"\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" apple-inline=\"yes\" id=\"4CD5A9A3-2E3F-4AA9-BF87-77E586602BBF\" src=\"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/DSC07015.jpg\" class=\"\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"\"><br class=\"\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"\">\u201cGhost ship is turning.\u201d<\/div>\n<div class=\"\">\u201cI can read the name.\u201d<\/div>\n<div class=\"\">\u201cIt\u2019s the Ridgetown.\u201d<\/div>\n<div class=\"\">\u201cCouldn\u2019t be the Ridgetown.\u201d<\/div>\n<div class=\"\">\u201cWhy not?\u201d<\/div>\n<div class=\"\">\u201cThe Ridgetown was scrapped 7o &nbsp;or 80 years ago\u2026<\/div>\n<div class=\"\">filled with cement and boulders\u2026rest on the bottom of<\/div>\n<div class=\"\">Lake Ontario now.\u201d<\/div>\n<div class=\"\"><br class=\"\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"\">\u201cThat\u2019s right but today it has come back to life.\u201d<\/div>\n<div class=\"\"><br class=\"\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"\"><br class=\"\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"\">\u2018<\/div>\n<div class=\"\"><br class=\"\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"\"><br class=\"\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"\"><br class=\"\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"\"><br class=\"\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EPISODE 511 &nbsp; THE RIDGETOWN AND WINTER ICE alan skeoch jan. 2022 Fire and Ice&nbsp; Launch Audio in a New Window BY&nbsp;ROBERT FROST Some say the world will end in fire, Some say in ice. From what I\u2019ve tasted of desire I hold with those who favor fire. But if it had to perish twice, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19698","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19698"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19698\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}