{"id":26071,"date":"1980-12-21T18:04:19","date_gmt":"1980-12-21T18:04:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bohemiavillage.com\/?p=26071"},"modified":"2013-07-09T16:41:18","modified_gmt":"2013-07-09T15:41:18","slug":"irene-mitchell-disaster-at-sea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bohemiavillage.com\/?p=26071","title":{"rendered":"Irene Mitchell &#8211; Disaster at Sea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From\u00a0<a title=\"Bohemia Bouquet\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bohemiavillage.com\/?p=25494\"><em>Bohemian Bouquet<\/em><\/a>, published 1980 by The Bohemians.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Disaster at Sea<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Over the icy, windswept sea,<\/p>\n<p>Sailed the lifeboat from Penlee.<\/p>\n<p>The lifeboat crew, whose eight brave men<\/p>\n<p>Would not be coming home again.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>When for help they\u2019d heard the cry<\/p>\n<p>They\u2019s kissed their families goodbye,<\/p>\n<p>And thought no more of home or bed<\/p>\n<p>But hurried to the lifeboat shed.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Tremendous waves were running high<\/p>\n<p>And all in one was sea and sky,<\/p>\n<p>The Penlee lifeboat pitched and tossed<\/p>\n<p>And that night, eight brave men were lost.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Later, wreckage washed ashore<\/p>\n<p>The name of Penlee lifeboat bore;<\/p>\n<p>But of the crew there was no trace,<\/p>\n<p>Though aircraft searched, then returned to base.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The people of Mousehole mourned and wept<\/p>\n<p>For the men who had perished while others slept.<\/p>\n<p>But life goes on, through tears and sighs,<\/p>\n<p>For the Cornish spirit never dies.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Irene Mitchell<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From\u00a0Bohemian Bouquet, published 1980 by The Bohemians. &nbsp; Disaster at Sea Over the icy, windswept sea, Sailed the lifeboat from Penlee. The lifeboat crew, whose eight brave men Would not be coming home&#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bohemiavillage.com\/?p=26071\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[243,109],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bohemiavillage.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26071"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bohemiavillage.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bohemiavillage.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bohemiavillage.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bohemiavillage.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26071"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.bohemiavillage.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26071\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27002,"href":"http:\/\/www.bohemiavillage.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26071\/revisions\/27002"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bohemiavillage.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bohemiavillage.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bohemiavillage.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}