{"id":37680,"date":"2017-08-05T19:13:20","date_gmt":"2017-08-05T23:13:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=37680"},"modified":"2017-08-05T19:13:20","modified_gmt":"2017-08-05T23:13:20","slug":"the-dance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/the-dance\/","title":{"rendered":"The Dance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>In the darkness of night the band came to town<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Dancing and jigging until the dawn<\/em><br \/>\n<em>The fiddlers were playing till they were almost on fire<\/em><br \/>\n<em>The dancers feet were surging, nary a yawn.<\/em><br \/>\n<em>They bounded around the room with intense energy<\/em><br \/>\n<em>The people surrounded them, hands clapping along<\/em><br \/>\n<em>With gleeful voices they cheered in time<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Joining in the spirited song.<\/em><br \/>\n<em>A drunken sailor tried to follow the dance<\/em><br \/>\n<em>His feet tripping over themselves<\/em><br \/>\n<em>The rest of the dancers linked arms with him<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Helped him dance like a troupe of elves.<\/em><br \/>\n<em>With a shout and a bow, the band left the town<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Following the morning sun<\/em><br \/>\n<em>The townspeople sighed and went home to their beds<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Sad to see the end of such fun.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the darkness of night the band came to town Dancing and jigging until the dawn The fiddlers were playing till they were almost on fire The dancers feet were surging, nary a yawn. They bounded around the room with intense energy The people surrounded&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":976,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37680","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37680","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\/976"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37680"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37680\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37690,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37680\/revisions\/37690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}