{"id":2519,"date":"2021-07-15T17:00:46","date_gmt":"2021-07-15T21:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/redtinnoodles.com\/?p=2519"},"modified":"2021-07-15T17:00:46","modified_gmt":"2021-07-15T21:00:46","slug":"big-top-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redtinnoodles.com\/?p=2519","title":{"rendered":"Big Top Down"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Our circus is bedeviled by old age.<\/div>\n<div>An elephant fell dead while up on stage.<\/div>\n<div>The dancing bears all have a limp.<\/div>\n<div>A poor kid got slapped by our chimp.<\/div>\n<div>Our giraffe&#8217;s cut back to decaf.<\/div>\n<div>His neck is often at half staff.<\/div>\n<div>The tiger&#8217;s never burning bright.<\/div>\n<div>He won&#8217;t get up until twilight.<\/div>\n<div>The snakes are fed rat protein shakes.<\/div>\n<div>The parrot apes soon&#8217;s he awakes.<\/div>\n<div>The horses are all donkeys painted white.<\/div>\n<div>All headed for that fourth ring, out of sight.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our circus is bedeviled by old age. An elephant fell dead while up on stage. The dancing bears all have a limp. A poor kid got slapped by our chimp. Our giraffe&#8217;s cut back to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/redtinnoodles.com\/?p=2519\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poem-2"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/redtinnoodles.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2519","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/redtinnoodles.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/redtinnoodles.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redtinnoodles.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redtinnoodles.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2519"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/redtinnoodles.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2519\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2520,"href":"https:\/\/redtinnoodles.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2519\/revisions\/2520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/redtinnoodles.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redtinnoodles.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redtinnoodles.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}