{"id":1834,"date":"2016-03-06T17:03:53","date_gmt":"2016-03-07T01:03:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wordsmithwisdom.com\/?p=1834"},"modified":"2016-03-06T17:03:53","modified_gmt":"2016-03-07T01:03:53","slug":"a-clown-apocalypse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wordsmithwisdom.com\/?p=1834","title":{"rendered":"A Clown Apocalypse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Clown Apocalypse<\/p>\n<p>There is a war coming our way.<br \/>\nNo, it is not a zombie apocalypse.<br \/>\nIt is clowns,&#8212;&#8211; clowns I say.<br \/>\nThey are kicking ass &amp; taking no lip.<br \/>\nHave you read Stephen King\u2019s \u201cIt?\u201d<br \/>\nThese clowns are way worse than that.<br \/>\nThese clowns will not take any s\u2014t.<br \/>\nThey may be clowns from hell and back.<br \/>\nNo one knows where they come from.<br \/>\nWhen your worst nightmare attacks,<br \/>\ndon\u2019t worry about, \u2018How did they come?\u2019<br \/>\nNot funny. They are vicious and deadly.<br \/>\nThey will rip you up, roll you in a bun.<br \/>\nAdd catsup &amp; mustard &amp; they are ready.<br \/>\nYou will be a meal for one.<br \/>\nWhat can we do to stop such a horror?<br \/>\nThat question has puzzled many.<br \/>\nBest way is yell \u201cWhat a bore!!\u201d<br \/>\nThis will upset them plenty.<br \/>\nDeep down inside they are still clowns.<br \/>\nTrue, clowns that have gone \u2018bad.\u2019<br \/>\nThey want the attention that abounds.<br \/>\nTo think they aren\u2019t the star is sad.<br \/>\nSoon, they go bonkers &amp; do themselves in.<br \/>\nA bad review does it every time.<br \/>\nIt takes nerve, but this is the way we win.<br \/>\nA world without \u2018bad\u2019 clowns is just fine.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;-R. W. Johnson&#8212;&#8211;(2016)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Clown Apocalypse There is a war coming our way. No, it is not a zombie apocalypse. It is clowns,&#8212;&#8211; clowns I say. They are kicking ass &amp; taking no lip. Have you read Stephen King\u2019s \u201cIt?\u201d These clowns are way worse than that. These clowns will not take any s\u2014t. They may be clowns &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wordsmithwisdom.com\/?p=1834\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A Clown Apocalypse<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,16,15,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fantasy","category-free-bird-poetry","category-horror","category-humor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wordsmithwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1834","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wordsmithwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wordsmithwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wordsmithwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wordsmithwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1834"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.wordsmithwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1834\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1835,"href":"https:\/\/www.wordsmithwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1834\/revisions\/1835"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wordsmithwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wordsmithwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wordsmithwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}