{"id":3123,"date":"2014-08-23T20:09:40","date_gmt":"2014-08-24T00:09:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=3123"},"modified":"2014-08-23T20:09:40","modified_gmt":"2014-08-24T00:09:40","slug":"the-gatekeeper-and-i","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2014\/08\/the-gatekeeper-and-i\/","title":{"rendered":"The gatekeeper and I"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I had hoped that<br \/>\nWatching my footprints<br \/>\nI would stop going in circles<br \/>\nThe gate master fiddled<br \/>\nAnd asked for my passport<br \/>\nI begged the gatekeeper<br \/>\nFor cider and cake<br \/>\nIn the old tradition<br \/>\nOf wasailing<br \/>\nHe told me to sing<br \/>\nBut I couldn&#8217;t think of a song<br \/>\nUntil I walked in more circles<br \/>\nThen I sang him this<br \/>\nKeeping time with the clapping<br \/>\nOf my hand on my thigh<br \/>\nThen he laughed in delight<br \/>\nAnd he opened the gate<br \/>\nWe ate cake and cider<br \/>\nHe said, &#8216;get on with you,<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s gotten too late&#8217;<br \/>\nThe door slammed behind me<br \/>\nI don&#8217;t know where I am<br \/>\nBut I can see my footprints<br \/>\nAnd I have my song on my tongue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had hoped that Watching my footprints I would stop going in circles The gate master fiddled And asked for my passport I begged the gatekeeper For cider and cake In the old tradition Of wasailing He told me to sing But I couldn&#8217;t think&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[136,137,53,52],"class_list":["post-3123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","tag-gatekeeper","tag-passport","tag-starklight-press","tag-virginia-carraway-stark"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3123","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\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3123"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3123\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3164,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3123\/revisions\/3164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}