{"id":2335,"date":"2023-01-20T08:50:02","date_gmt":"2023-01-20T08:50:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/daniel.footstepsbooks.com\/?p=2335"},"modified":"2023-01-20T08:50:02","modified_gmt":"2023-01-20T08:50:02","slug":"no-master","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/daniel.footstepsbooks.com\/index.php\/2023\/01\/20\/no-master\/","title":{"rendered":"No Master"},"content":{"rendered":"<pre class=\"title vcard item otitle_8494347\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">No Master\n\nIndeed this is the sweet life! my hand\n<\/span>Is under no proud man's command;\nThere is no voice to break my rest\nBefore a bird has left its nest;\nThere is no man to change my mood,\nWhen I go nutting in the wood;\nNo man to pluck my sleeve and say \u2014\nI want thy labour for this day;\nNo man to keep me out of sight,\nWhen that dear Sun is shining bright.\nNone but my friends shall have command\nUpon my time, my heart and hand;\nI'll rise from sleep to help a friend,\nBut let no stranger orders send,\nOr hear my curses fast and thick,\nWhich in his purse-proud throat would stick\nLike burrs. If I cannot be free\nTo do such work as pleases me,\nNear woodland pools and under trees,\nYou'll get no work at all, for I\nWould rather live this life and die\nA beggar or a thief, than be\nA working slave with no days free.\n\nW H Davis<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No Master Indeed this is the sweet life! my hand Is under no proud man&#8217;s command; There is no voice to break my rest Before a bird has left its nest; There is no man to change my mood, When I go nutting in the wood; No man to pluck my sleeve and say \u2014&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,4],"tags":[508,781],"class_list":["post-2335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry","category-daily","tag-no-master","tag-w-h-davis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/daniel.footstepsbooks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2335","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/daniel.footstepsbooks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/daniel.footstepsbooks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.footstepsbooks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.footstepsbooks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2335"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.footstepsbooks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2335\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/daniel.footstepsbooks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.footstepsbooks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.footstepsbooks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}