{"id":129910,"date":"2023-09-02T12:22:28","date_gmt":"2023-09-02T16:22:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=129910"},"modified":"2023-09-02T13:54:27","modified_gmt":"2023-09-02T17:54:27","slug":"sailor-tobe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/sailor-tobe\/","title":{"rendered":"Sailor Tobe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The sea was a churning fall of scree<br \/>\nSlate amongst the sonorous greys<br \/>\nThe sailor Tobe was bound for Spain,<br \/>\nA Charmoise sheep his second mate<br \/>\n(The first, a fox, had flown away<br \/>\nBut will, once wed, return again)<br \/>\nHe pulled a line which lit the stove<br \/>\nThe steady sea a tabletop<br \/>\nOn which to have his sarnie of<br \/>\n<span lang=\"en-US\">S<\/span><span lang=\"en-US\">crumtrulescent <\/span><span lang=\"en-US\">lemon drops.<br \/>\n<\/span><span lang=\"en-US\">The sun appeared, Tobe wailed atop<br \/>\n<\/span><span lang=\"en-US\">The towering mast of feathertop<br \/>\n<\/span>\u2018We\u2019ll never make the port Ja\u00e9n!\u201d<br \/>\nThe ship said \u2018Or return again!\u201d<br \/>\n\u201cT\u2019en fait tout un fromage\u201d \u2013 the mate, and then<br \/>\nThe writer let the rhyme scheme&#8230; fail.<br \/>\n\u201cCheers drive!\u201d said a stowaway,<br \/>\nThe valued titmouse cabinboy,<br \/>\n\u201cAt least we\u2019ve seen the jewelleried fish<br \/>\nAnd smelled the steaming seaweed soup,<br \/>\nAt least we\u2019ve felt the roughwood boards<br \/>\nBeneath our wetsock footsteps caught,<br \/>\nAt least we\u2019ve tasted lemon drops.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The sea was a churning fall of scree Slate amongst the sonorous greys The sailor Tobe was bound for Spain, A Charmoise sheep his second mate (The first, a fox, had flown away But will, once wed, return again) He pulled a line which lit&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2314,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-129910","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129910","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\/2314"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=129910"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129910\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":130079,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129910\/revisions\/130079"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}