{"id":53434,"date":"2019-06-22T20:46:57","date_gmt":"2019-06-23T00:46:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=53434"},"modified":"2019-06-22T20:49:27","modified_gmt":"2019-06-23T00:49:27","slug":"from-rip-van-winkle-page-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/from-rip-van-winkle-page-3\/","title":{"rendered":"From &#8220;Rip Van Winkle&#8221; page 3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>THE SECRET TO BLISS<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The great error in composition<\/p>\n<p>Was an aversion to all profitable labor.<\/p>\n<p>Not from the want of perseverance;<\/p>\n<p>For he would fish all day,<\/p>\n<p>Carry a fowling piece on his shoulders for hours.<\/p>\n<p>He would never refuse to assist a neighbor,<\/p>\n<p>And was ready to attend to anybody&#8217;s business<\/p>\n<p>But his own.<\/p>\n<p>His children were ragged and wild.<\/p>\n<p>He, however was one of those happy mortals;<\/p>\n<p>Who take the world easy and<\/p>\n<p>Whistled life away<\/p>\n<p>In perfect contentment.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/poetry-marathon-2019-final-prompt.pdf\">poetry marathon 2019 final prompt<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>THE SECRET TO BLISS &nbsp; The great error in composition Was an aversion to all profitable labor. Not from the want of perseverance; For he would fish all day, Carry a fowling piece on his shoulders for hours. He would never refuse to assist a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1217,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53434","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53434","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\/1217"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53434"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53434\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53675,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53434\/revisions\/53675"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}