{"id":57863,"date":"2019-06-23T08:22:08","date_gmt":"2019-06-23T12:22:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=57863"},"modified":"2020-06-20T18:01:16","modified_gmt":"2020-06-20T22:01:16","slug":"hour-24-four-and-twenty-blackbirds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/hour-24-four-and-twenty-blackbirds\/","title":{"rendered":"Hour 24 &#8211; Four and Twenty Blackbirds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Four and Twenty Blackbirds<\/p>\n<p>A chef of great talent and skill was he<br \/>\nTo construct this dish of pastry and bird<br \/>\nPresented to the king with pomp and glee<br \/>\nOnly for it to take wing without a word<\/p>\n<p>The king, cared he not for pies and such,<br \/>\nSpending his time in totaling his books<br \/>\nThe queen, her lips no birdy pie would touch,<br \/>\nBread and honey, she ordered from the cooks<\/p>\n<p>The blackbirds, released from doughy prison cell,<br \/>\nWith all the world to wander in free flight<br \/>\nChose now to persecute one lonely belle<br \/>\nGiving her tender nose a vicious bite<\/p>\n<p>We, who tormented in the past, may be<br \/>\nAs cruel to others when we are set free<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Four and Twenty Blackbirds A chef of great talent and skill was he To construct this dish of pastry and bird Presented to the king with pomp and glee Only for it to take wing without a word The king, cared he not for pies&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1047,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57863","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\/1047"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57863"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57863\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57867,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57863\/revisions\/57867"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}