{"id":3427,"date":"2014-08-23T22:12:26","date_gmt":"2014-08-24T02:12:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=3427"},"modified":"2014-08-23T22:12:26","modified_gmt":"2014-08-24T02:12:26","slug":"the-ballybog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2014\/08\/the-ballybog\/","title":{"rendered":"The ballybog"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We now have to consider<br \/>\nThe gibbet<br \/>\nThey prayed<br \/>\nHe would not requite his death<br \/>\nWith storms or other<br \/>\nadversaries<br \/>\nA bed full of fleas<br \/>\nWas more than merely witty<\/p>\n<p>Then came the ballybog<br \/>\nMud covered they rise<br \/>\nOn their bulbous bodies<br \/>\nArms and legs like sticks<br \/>\nTheir neckless heads<br \/>\nGrunt and gibber<\/p>\n<p>The boggies chased<br \/>\nThe murderous crew<br \/>\nAll covered in fleas<br \/>\nThey griped and they whined<br \/>\nCovered in ballybog slime<\/p>\n<p>With his arms stretched wide<br \/>\nAnd a mouth full<br \/>\nOf rotten teeth<br \/>\nThe bog-a-boo was relentless<\/p>\n<p>Each man who hung<br \/>\nOld Charlie up high<br \/>\nGrew stuck in the mud<br \/>\nHuman sacrifices left to die<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We now have to consider The gibbet They prayed He would not requite his death With storms or other adversaries A bed full of fleas Was more than merely witty Then came the ballybog Mud covered they rise On their bulbous bodies Arms and legs&#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":[10,53,52],"class_list":["post-3427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","tag-poetry","tag-starklight-press","tag-virginia-carraway-stark"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3427","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=3427"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3427\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3460,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3427\/revisions\/3460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}