{"id":1371,"date":"2011-08-28T12:54:43","date_gmt":"2011-08-28T12:54:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gregglory.com\/wordpress\/?p=1371"},"modified":"2023-07-08T10:21:22","modified_gmt":"2023-07-08T10:21:22","slug":"chain-chain-chain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregglory.com\/blastpress\/posts\/chain-chain-chain\/","title":{"rendered":"Chain Chain Chain"},"content":{"rendered":"<pre>\r\nOnce upon a time, I had slightly\r\nBruised my fingerend in tying\r\nUnneedful knots too brutally.\r\nThe knots were sonnets, gracefully\r\nLosing bout by bout in rhyming,\r\nDespite my careful scratching\r\nThat annulled no spot of itching.\r\nI had not thought that writing\r\nWas so much like fighting\r\nOr two witches bitching\r\nSo under-epidermally.\r\nI stayed at it relentlessly\r\nTying tying tying\r\nEvery \r\nMusing, \r\nBruising\r\nBlossom stylistically.\r\nThe daisy-\r\nChain was for no one particularly\r\n(Or perhaps I am lying)\r\nYou know how things get tangly\r\nWhen we practice firstly....\r\nThe lengthening \r\nString of words got too stringy\r\nAnd self-involved in singing\r\nThat should have taken flight more singly\r\nBy whistling \r\nUnconcernedly\r\nAnd not too self-consciously,\r\nThe way \r\nA clumsy \r\nKite, so sprightly\r\nCan climb all day \r\nBy dodging\r\nMore effortful breezes, never too longly\r\nLodging,\r\nNever aloft too lingeringly\r\nUntil the crisis of a knot too thoughtfully\r\nUnthoughtful cripples the so skyey \r\nThingy\r\nInto a crooked tree.\r\n\r\n<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Once upon a time, I had slightly Bruised my fingerend in tying Unneedful knots too brutally. The knots were sonnets, gracefully Losing bout by bout in rhyming, Despite my careful scratching That annulled no spot of itching. I had not thought that writing Was so much like fighting Or two witches bitching So under-epidermally. I <a href='https:\/\/gregglory.com\/blastpress\/posts\/chain-chain-chain\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1001002,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1102],"tags":[460,461,457,459,458],"class_list":["post-1371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sonnets","tag-chain-chain-chain","tag-crooked-tree","tag-daisy-chain","tag-string-of-words","tag-two-witches","category-1102-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregglory.com\/blastpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1371","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregglory.com\/blastpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregglory.com\/blastpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregglory.com\/blastpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1001002"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregglory.com\/blastpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1371"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gregglory.com\/blastpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1371\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8094,"href":"https:\/\/gregglory.com\/blastpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1371\/revisions\/8094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregglory.com\/blastpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregglory.com\/blastpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregglory.com\/blastpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}