{"id":39697,"date":"2017-08-05T23:24:34","date_gmt":"2017-08-06T03:24:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=39697"},"modified":"2017-08-05T23:24:34","modified_gmt":"2017-08-06T03:24:34","slug":"the-spirit-of-oi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/the-spirit-of-oi\/","title":{"rendered":"The Spirit of Oi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The name is &#8216;Oi&#8217; &#8211; if you please! be rid of me and be done with death and disease. The Massai of Kenya doth truly believe, the spirit of an illness lives as its disease<\/p>\n<p>cleanse ye house of all&#8217;s inside, so that death and its remnants have non place to hide<\/p>\n<p>across mighty waters these tales did travel &#8211; not lost in the Bermuda Triangle, not a stitch did unravel<\/p>\n<p>Riddled with disease as a termite through wood, wholes in your bones &#8211; no drug will do ye good.<\/p>\n<p>life unpacked as the long truck in the alley is hooked up<\/p>\n<p>drums, tambourines,music and a few other things<\/p>\n<p>house swept clean of all your things.<\/p>\n<p>when death comes seeking, it&#8217;ll find you not weeping.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The name is &#8216;Oi&#8217; &#8211; if you please! be rid of me and be done with death and disease. The Massai of Kenya doth truly believe, the spirit of an illness lives as its disease cleanse ye house of all&#8217;s inside, so that death and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1032,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39697","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\/1032"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39697"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39697\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39792,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39697\/revisions\/39792"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}