{"id":2790,"date":"2024-08-24T19:32:42","date_gmt":"2024-08-24T19:32:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/daniel.footstepsbooks.com\/?p=2790"},"modified":"2024-08-24T19:32:42","modified_gmt":"2024-08-24T19:32:42","slug":"the-donkey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/daniel.footstepsbooks.com\/index.php\/2024\/08\/24\/the-donkey\/","title":{"rendered":"The Donkey"},"content":{"rendered":"<header class=\"mb-1.5 md:mb-8\">\n<header class=\"grid gap-2\">\n<div class=\"flex items-center gap-2\">\n<p><strong>The Donkey<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/header>\n<\/header>\n<article class=\"mb-6 grid gap-12 md:mb-0\">\n<div class=\"relative\" data-v-1a293654=\"\">\n<div class=\"annotations-active\" data-v-1a293654=\"\">\n<div class=\"rich-text copy-large\" data-v-1a293654=\"\" data-v-5d42741a=\"\">\n<div class=\"poem-body\" data-v-5d42741a=\"\">\n<div>When fishes flew and forests walked<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0And figs grew upon thorn,<\/div>\n<div>Some moment when the moon was blood<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Then surely I was born.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>With monstrous head and sickening cry<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0And ears like errant wings,<\/div>\n<div>The devil\u2019s walking parody<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0On all four-footed things.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The tattered outlaw of the earth,<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Of ancient crooked will;<\/div>\n<div>Starve, scourge, deride me: I am dumb,<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0I keep my secret still.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Fools! For I also had my hour;<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0One far fierce hour and sweet:<\/div>\n<div>There was a shout about my ears,<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0And palms before my feet.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<div><\/div>\n<article class=\"mb-6 grid gap-12 md:mb-0\">\n<div class=\"relative\" data-v-1a293654=\"\">\n<div class=\"annotations-active\" data-v-1a293654=\"\">\n<div class=\"rich-text copy-large\" data-v-1a293654=\"\" data-v-5d42741a=\"\">\n<div>G K Chesterton<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Donkey When fishes flew and forests walked \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0And figs grew upon thorn, Some moment when the moon was blood \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Then surely I was born. With monstrous head and sickening cry \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0And ears like errant wings, The devil\u2019s walking parody \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0On all four-footed things. The tattered outlaw of the earth, \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Of ancient crooked will; Starve,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1007,1008],"class_list":["post-2790","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry","tag-g-k-chesterton","tag-the-donkey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/daniel.footstepsbooks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2790","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.footstepsbooks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2790"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.footstepsbooks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2790\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2791,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.footstepsbooks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2790\/revisions\/2791"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/daniel.footstepsbooks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.footstepsbooks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.footstepsbooks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}