{"id":117704,"date":"2022-06-25T23:05:42","date_gmt":"2022-06-26T03:05:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/?p=117704"},"modified":"2022-06-25T23:05:42","modified_gmt":"2022-06-26T03:05:42","slug":"hour-fourteen-the-emperors-new-clothes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/hour-fourteen-the-emperors-new-clothes\/","title":{"rendered":"Hour Fourteen &#8211; The Emperor&#8217;s New Clothes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Emperor\u2019s New Clothes<\/p>\n<p>He only wore the very best<br \/>\nSilk and satin and pearl<br \/>\nStriking ribbons on his chest<br \/>\nWith patterns straight or swirled<\/p>\n<p>He luxuriated in special hats<br \/>\nHis capes were trimmed in fur<br \/>\nThe shoes he wore, they must have spats<br \/>\nHis underpants smelled of myrrh<\/p>\n<p>The weavers who had come to town<br \/>\nMade claims he couldn\u2019t skip<br \/>\nSecretly they thought him a clown<br \/>\nHis gold they planned to nip<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMost cannot see our special cloth<br \/>\nTo fools it disappears.\u201d<br \/>\nAha! the Emperor had a thought:<br \/>\nI\u2019ll examine my viziers!<\/p>\n<p>He sent his staff in one by one<br \/>\nTo see what they could see<br \/>\nAlthough the cloth was seen by none<br \/>\nIt\u2019s fineness they all decreed<\/p>\n<p>They declared, \u201cYou should see it!\u201d<br \/>\n\u201cThe best fabric in the land!\u201d<br \/>\nBut when the emperor took a peek<br \/>\nHe did not understand<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s nothing there!\u201d he muttered<br \/>\n\u201cAm I a fool indeed?\u201d<br \/>\n\u201cIt can not be!\u201d he shuddered<br \/>\n\u201cI\u2019ll simply pretend I see.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The weavers asked for gold galore<br \/>\nAnd feigned to work for days<br \/>\nThey made him outfits by the score<br \/>\nWhich baffled each person\u2019s gaze <\/p>\n<p>The day came for the procession<br \/>\nRight though the town square<br \/>\nHe dressed to the elevens<br \/>\nBut really, he was bare<\/p>\n<p>The people bowed and curtsied<br \/>\nNo ignorance to show<br \/>\nOnly a little child could see<br \/>\n\u201cThe Emperor has no clothes!\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Emperor\u2019s New Clothes He only wore the very best Silk and satin and pearl Striking ribbons on his chest With patterns straight or swirled He luxuriated in special hats His capes were trimmed in fur The shoes he wore, they must have spats His&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1047,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-117704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117704","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\/1047"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117704"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117704\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":117721,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117704\/revisions\/117721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}