{"id":25122,"date":"2020-06-14T20:30:02","date_gmt":"2020-06-15T00:30:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/?p=25122"},"modified":"2020-06-14T20:31:02","modified_gmt":"2020-06-15T00:31:02","slug":"limericks-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/2020\/06\/14\/limericks-2.html","title":{"rendered":"Limericks"},"content":{"rendered":"<pre>to a fallen pretender of fame\r\ncame ugly suggestions of blame\r\n\ta life sent to hell\r\n\ta knife lent to tell\r\nthat the winners do not play the game\r\n\r\n\r\ncontrol of the hovering blame\r\nis graced by a cigarette shame\r\n\tan empty motel\r\n\ta strangeness to tell\r\nof a cheap night at home with the game\r\n\r\n\r\nshaking in the hands of the blind\r\ni dropped like a frown on your kind\r\n\thundreds of dollars a day\r\n\tspent on the gins of Bombay\r\nfor the hot, sinking sponge of your mind\r\n\r\n\r\na grim disagreement of greed\r\nsaw a firm resolution of creed\r\n\tthe catholics complained\r\n\tthe mormons refrained\r\nand the garbagemen came for your seed\r\n\r\n\r\nletters from children to God\r\nsuggest that the questions are broad\r\n\ta child of 5 asks\r\n\twhat reality masks\r\nand thinks that it may be a fraud\r\n\r\n\r\nit\u2018s good to be home with the young\r\nwhen the grasp of conceptions is strong\r\n\ti think of you two\r\n\twhen corpses come to\r\nin the placid dismay of the wrong<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>to a fallen pretender of fame came ugly suggestions of blame a life sent to hell a knife lent to tell that the winners do not play the game control of the hovering blame is graced by a cigarette shame an empty motel a strangeness to tell of a cheap night at home with the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poems","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paumAn-6xc","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25122"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25122\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25124,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25122\/revisions\/25124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}