{"id":1886,"date":"2018-05-21T07:16:25","date_gmt":"2018-05-21T07:16:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/notablesoftheworld.com\/blog\/?p=1886"},"modified":"2018-06-25T07:32:22","modified_gmt":"2018-06-25T07:32:22","slug":"grumps-to-andrew-not-so-seditious-nonsense-no-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/notablesoftheworld.com\/blog\/grumps-to-andrew-not-so-seditious-nonsense-no-3\/","title":{"rendered":"GRUMPS TO ANDREW &#8211; NOT SO SEDITIOUS NONSENSE No. 3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Take a good look at the World as you enter<br \/>\nFear not emotions but check with the brain,<br \/>\nNever stray so far from the centre<br \/>\nThat you can&#8217;t get back again.<\/p>\n<p>Whatever you may think of yourself<br \/>\nThe World will have its say,<br \/>\nAnd though you may wish to stay on the shelf<br \/>\nFate will have its way.<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes you should race along<br \/>\nWith the World tucked under your arm;<br \/>\nA triumphant winner, noble and strong<br \/>\nTrue to your own lucky charm<\/p>\n<p>Feeling a little glow of life<br \/>\nhaving lived for one more day,<br \/>\nA thousand years of futile strife<br \/>\nWill not sweep that glow away.<\/p>\n<p>The inner tensions in one can<br \/>\nCompete as if a thing apart<br \/>\nAcross the generation span<br \/>\nTo heal an aching heart.<\/p>\n<p>Fulfilling what there has to be,<br \/>\nRejoicing in simplicity<br \/>\nSeeing God&#8217;s way in harmony<br \/>\nWith peace for thee and me.<\/p>\n<p>December 1993<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Take a good look at the World as you enter Fear not emotions but check with the brain, Never stray so far from the centre That you can&#8217;t get back again. Whatever you may think of yourself The World will &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/notablesoftheworld.com\/blog\/grumps-to-andrew-not-so-seditious-nonsense-no-3\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/notablesoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1886","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/notablesoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/notablesoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/notablesoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/notablesoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1886"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/notablesoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1886\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1887,"href":"http:\/\/notablesoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1886\/revisions\/1887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/notablesoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/notablesoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/notablesoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}