{"id":43643,"date":"2017-08-07T15:33:56","date_gmt":"2017-08-07T19:33:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=43643"},"modified":"2017-08-07T15:33:56","modified_gmt":"2017-08-07T19:33:56","slug":"ode-to-my-beard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/ode-to-my-beard\/","title":{"rendered":"Ode to my Beard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It hangs beneath my eyes<\/p>\n<p>catching stray food better than flies.<\/p>\n<p>I wash it with mead<\/p>\n<p>and soak it with ale.<\/p>\n<p>It is the very picture of my zeal.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>With age come strength.<\/p>\n<p>And strength bows its head to gray wisdom.<\/p>\n<p>Its glory grows the greater.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>As it lengthens each day,<\/p>\n<p>it becomes harder to keep the maidens away.<\/p>\n<p>A shield maid<\/p>\n<p>loves a strongly bearded man.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Of the bearded ones<\/p>\n<p>among my tribe,<\/p>\n<p>none can stand by my side.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Its glory is my song.<\/p>\n<p>Its color, though the color of good steel,<\/p>\n<p>will better younger men<\/p>\n<p>no matter their zeal.<\/p>\n<p>My beard is the greatest that can be.<\/p>\n<p>Just touch it and see.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It hangs beneath my eyes catching stray food better than flies. I wash it with mead and soak it with ale. It is the very picture of my zeal. &nbsp; With age come strength. And strength bows its head to gray wisdom. Its glory grows&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1069,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43643","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43643","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\/1069"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43643"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43643\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43644,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43643\/revisions\/43644"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}