{"id":100170,"date":"2021-06-27T02:59:19","date_gmt":"2021-06-27T06:59:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=100170"},"modified":"2021-06-27T02:59:23","modified_gmt":"2021-06-27T06:59:23","slug":"the-talking-drum-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/the-talking-drum-again\/","title":{"rendered":"The Talking Drum Again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The talking Drum Again<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The talking drum again<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s still beckoning to me<\/p>\n<p>As it speaks in tongues,<\/p>\n<p>Tongues of the drum<\/p>\n<p>Known only to the initiated<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Well, I think it\u2019s talking to me<\/p>\n<p>But then, the drummer only<\/p>\n<p>Has the last say of that<\/p>\n<p>Which he makes the drum to voice<\/p>\n<p>You be right only if he says so<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The talking drum, a mystery<\/p>\n<p>The secret of which the drummer holds<\/p>\n<p>But only when he beats the drum<\/p>\n<p>For, as soon as I or another takes the drum<\/p>\n<p>The master\u2019s voice is quickly changed<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The talking drum<\/p>\n<p>Padipanpadi, padipmpidi<\/p>\n<p>Patapiti, piridiri<\/p>\n<p>Bobobo o, boswe<\/p>\n<p>Yea, let the drummer have his say in silence<\/p>\n<p>But in the trigger<\/p>\n<p>Of the talking drum<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The talking Drum Again &nbsp; The talking drum again It\u2019s still beckoning to me As it speaks in tongues, Tongues of the drum Known only to the initiated &nbsp; Well, I think it\u2019s talking to me But then, the drummer only Has the last say&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3490,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-100170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100170","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3490"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100170"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100170\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":100559,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100170\/revisions\/100559"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}