{"id":792,"date":"2012-09-24T12:52:13","date_gmt":"2012-09-24T12:52:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/martinblack.com\/?p=792"},"modified":"2015-01-21T16:14:03","modified_gmt":"2015-01-21T16:14:03","slug":"in-praise-of-wild-camping-no-4-arthur-rimbaud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/martinblack.com\/oldsite\/2012\/09\/in-praise-of-wild-camping-no-4-arthur-rimbaud\/","title":{"rendered":"In Praise of Wild Camping &#8211; Arthur Rimbaud on a beach in France"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_794\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-794\" style=\"width: 256px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/martinblack.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/rimbaud1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-794\" title=\"Arthur Rimbaud - cover from A Season in Hell\" src=\"http:\/\/martinblack.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/rimbaud1.jpg\" alt=\"Arthur Rimbaud - cover from A Season in Hell\" width=\"256\" height=\"397\" srcset=\"https:\/\/martinblack.com\/oldsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/rimbaud1.jpg 256w, https:\/\/martinblack.com\/oldsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/rimbaud1-193x300.jpg 193w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 256px) 100vw, 256px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-794\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Arthur Rimbaud &#8211; cover from A Season in Hell<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Arthur_Rimbaud\">Arthur Rimbaud<\/a> has long been my favourite poet.<\/p>\n<p>He spent much of his youth travelling by foot across France and Belgium, drinking and writing his\u00a0poetry.<\/p>\n<p>At the age of twenty he gave up poetry for good and resumed his restless travelling across the globe.<\/p>\n<p>He died at the age of 38 leaving behind a body of work that would place him amongst the greatest of French poets.<\/p>\n<p>Long the patron saint of bohemians,\u00a0visionaries, modernists, vagabonds and punk-rockers, he is also special to the lonesome traveller setting-up camp in a forbidden place.<\/p>\n<p>Our salute to wild camping comes from\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/A_Season_in_Hell\">A Season in Hell<\/a>, his most well known, and perhaps greatest, work of art:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The best thing of all is a very drunken sleep, on the beach<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Also for the wanderer, from the poem &#8216;Feelings&#8217;:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>On the blue summer evenings, I\u2019ll roam along the footpaths, Brushed by the blades of wheat, treading the fine grass. Full of wonder, I shall feel its freshness at my feet. I shall let the wind bathe my uncovered head. I shall say nothing at all, nor shall I think about anything. Yet this infinite love will rise to fill my soul.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Saying and thinking nothing, the liberation of the path underfoot, who could ask for more?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Arthur Rimbaud has long been my favourite poet. He spent much of his youth travelling by foot across France and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11],"tags":[30,53,40],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/martinblack.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/792"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/martinblack.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/martinblack.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/martinblack.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/martinblack.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=792"}],"version-history":[{"count":31,"href":"https:\/\/martinblack.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/792\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3171,"href":"https:\/\/martinblack.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/792\/revisions\/3171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/martinblack.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/martinblack.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/martinblack.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}