{"id":214,"date":"2021-02-28T22:44:39","date_gmt":"2021-02-28T22:44:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gibson.show\/bard\/?page_id=214"},"modified":"2021-02-28T22:44:39","modified_gmt":"2021-02-28T22:44:39","slug":"wandered-and-wondered","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/gibson.show\/bard\/wandered-and-wondered\/","title":{"rendered":"Wandered and Wondered"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse\">\n He shucked the shell from the mussel,\n Gobbled the meats, and smiled and thought\n Of the tubers and greens he had rustled\n To roast up with beets, and steep in a sauce\n \nRefrain\n For <strong>days<\/strong> he had wandered and wondered\n Pondered and plundered larders for lard\n But he pondered too hard, and hungered again\n And so he restarted, his feast without end\n \n He napped in the bristles, while whistled by bolts\n and other such missiles, launching or lobbed\n Some battle, or siege, or bloody revolt\n He finished his meal, and started to nod\n \n After so brief a nap, of hardly a day,\n He awoke in a red battlefield\n He thought of the visceral waste and decay\n But just for a minute, then looked for a meal\n \nRefrain\n For <strong>weeks<\/strong> he had wandered and wondered\n Pondered and plundered larders for lard\n But he pondered too hard, and hungered again\n And so he restarted, his feast without end\n \n Something had always confused him\n Others abused him, but he just didn't bleed\n Or let in the spear tips, to puncture his skin\n He wondered why others, felt such wanton need\n \n If you really love life, do like him, just don't die\n Maintain your musk and deeply breathe in\n He'd tried to tell folk, just refuse to comply\n If a psychopomp visits, send him to kin\n \nRefrain\n For <strong>years<\/strong> he had wandered and wondered\n Pondered and plundered larders for lard\n But he pondered too hard, and hungered again\n And so he restarted, his feast without end\n \n \n \n Verse\n \/ G - - C \/ D - - G \/ G - - C \/ D - - G \/ \nRefrain\n \/ C - - G \/ C D G->Em \/ C D E->G \/ C D G - \/ <\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>He shucked the shell from the mussel, Gobbled the meats, and smiled and thought Of the tubers and greens he had rustled To roast up with beets, and steep in<span class=\"more-button\"><a href=\"https:\/\/gibson.show\/bard\/wandered-and-wondered\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Wandered and Wondered<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gibson.show\/bard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/214"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gibson.show\/bard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gibson.show\/bard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gibson.show\/bard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gibson.show\/bard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=214"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gibson.show\/bard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/214\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":215,"href":"https:\/\/gibson.show\/bard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/214\/revisions\/215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gibson.show\/bard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}