{"id":616,"date":"2007-06-14T23:59:10","date_gmt":"2007-06-15T04:59:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/2007\/06\/14\/swabbing-the-decks\/"},"modified":"2007-06-15T00:04:11","modified_gmt":"2007-06-15T05:04:11","slug":"swabbing-the-decks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/2007\/06\/14\/swabbing-the-decks\/","title":{"rendered":"swabbing the deck"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Behind his house in his garden,<br \/>\nno matter which winds prevailed,<br \/>\nhe was the hearty yardman<br \/>\nwho readied his vessel for sails.<\/p>\n<p>For there in his yard was an ocean<br \/>\nso green that his vessel traversed;<br \/>\nso steady it seemed without motion<br \/>\nbut ready for gale or worse.<\/p>\n<p>And if there was hint of a party<br \/>\nHe knew that his service would be<br \/>\nto swab both the decks like a star; he<br \/>\nloved scrubbing and polished with glee.<\/p>\n<p>And thus are the simple things easy<br \/>\nand thus are the hearty things brave;<br \/>\nyou can roam the world here while you&#8217;re dreaming<br \/>\nand think of the money you save.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Behind his house in his garden, no matter which winds prevailed, he was the hearty yardman who readied his vessel for sails. For there in his yard was an ocean so green that his vessel traversed; so steady it seemed &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/2007\/06\/14\/swabbing-the-decks\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/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":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-616","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/616","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=616"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/616\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}