{"id":41079,"date":"2017-08-06T03:09:15","date_gmt":"2017-08-06T07:09:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=41079"},"modified":"2017-08-06T03:09:15","modified_gmt":"2017-08-06T07:09:15","slug":"at-the-circus-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/at-the-circus-2\/","title":{"rendered":"at the circus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>at the circus<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>there she is, flying with the greatest of ease,<\/p>\n<p>for all to see,<\/p>\n<p>on the flying trapeze.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>the monkeys dance for the lion tamers\u2019 cracking whips<\/p>\n<p>to keep the crowd awake.<\/p>\n<p>elephants trumpet,<\/p>\n<p>standing on tip-toes,<\/p>\n<p>so unsteady as to shake the whole tent to the ground.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>peanuts,<\/p>\n<p>popcorn,<\/p>\n<p>and candy floss<\/p>\n<p>fill our mouths with happiness<\/p>\n<p>like magic.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>at the circus,<\/p>\n<p>we found those bright places in our lives<\/p>\n<p>where all that is golden was ours.<\/p>\n<p>R. L. Elke<\/p>\n<p>\u00a9 Aug 5\/17 prompt 18<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>at the circus \u00a0 there she is, flying with the greatest of ease, for all to see, on the flying trapeze. &nbsp; the monkeys dance for the lion tamers\u2019 cracking whips to keep the crowd awake. elephants trumpet, standing on tip-toes, so unsteady as to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":712,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41079","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41079","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\/712"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41079"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41079\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41081,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41079\/revisions\/41081"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}