{"id":1897,"date":"2016-04-08T14:17:18","date_gmt":"2016-04-08T22:17:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wordsmithwisdom.com\/?p=1897"},"modified":"2016-04-08T14:17:18","modified_gmt":"2016-04-08T22:17:18","slug":"gobbly-gunk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wordsmithwisdom.com\/?p=1897","title":{"rendered":"Gobbly Gunk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gobbly Gunk<\/p>\n<p>Sit down and turn around.<br \/>\nPlant your tomatoes in the ground.<br \/>\nGet up and shake it off.<br \/>\nYou know pigs eat from a troth.<br \/>\nStir it up and shake it down.<br \/>\nThis is no place for a clown.<br \/>\nWere you born standing up?<br \/>\nDid they smack you on the butt?<br \/>\nIt can be fun with another.<br \/>\nSomeone other than your brother.<br \/>\nI had a dream the other night.<br \/>\nThe sight of you gave me a fright.<br \/>\nIf spirits are real, what about ghosts?<br \/>\nWho eats the fastest gets the most.<br \/>\nThe A, B, C\u2019s of you and me.<br \/>\nWhat you get is what you see.<br \/>\nHave you tried kissing in the dark?<br \/>\nSometimes it is not too smart.<br \/>\nTry to bend down &amp; touch your toes.<br \/>\nKnees straight. Don\u2019t wrinkle your hose.<br \/>\nI must say, today is dragging.<br \/>\nBut, I\u2019ll survive. I am not bragging.<br \/>\nThe last boy was different than me.<br \/>\nHe was not insane, you see.<br \/>\nDiamond Mountain is the place to go.<br \/>\nNo diamonds, but lots of weeds grow.<br \/>\nThis poem is an insane piece of crap.<br \/>\nYou\u2019re not alone in thinking that.<br \/>\nSo, guess I\u2019d better end it now.<br \/>\nBefore some reader has a cow.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;-R. W. Johnson&#8212;&#8211;(20160<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gobbly Gunk Sit down and turn around. Plant your tomatoes in the ground. Get up and shake it off. You know pigs eat from a troth. Stir it up and shake it down. This is no place for a clown. Were you born standing up? Did they smack you on the butt? It can be &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wordsmithwisdom.com\/?p=1897\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Gobbly Gunk<\/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":[16,24,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1897","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-free-bird-poetry","category-humor","category-random"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wordsmithwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1897","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=1897"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.wordsmithwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1897\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1898,"href":"https:\/\/www.wordsmithwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1897\/revisions\/1898"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wordsmithwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wordsmithwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wordsmithwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}