{"id":3168,"date":"2025-05-14T09:13:09","date_gmt":"2025-05-14T16:13:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lewczyk.net\/tomswritings\/?p=3168"},"modified":"2025-05-16T08:03:50","modified_gmt":"2025-05-16T15:03:50","slug":"be-a-clown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lewczyk.net\/tomswritings\/?p=3168","title":{"rendered":"Be A Clown [Classic] (10 line poem)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);color: #00006d;\" class=\"has-inline-color\"><em>Old poem recently found. I did some searching to see if it was someone else\u2019s poem that I copied (this happens), but I didn\u2019t find it \u2014 so I assume it is mine.<\/em><\/mark><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Give a go. Do a dance.<br>Live some more. Take a chance.<br>Eat at home. Go to bed.<br>Try to sleep. In your head. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Be alone. Be yourself.<br>Let me be. Be an elf.<br>Eat a fig. Take a chance.<br>Be aware. Do a dance<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Be a clown. Live it down.<br>Wear it up. Wear it down. Be a clown.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Old poem recently found. I did some searching to see if it was someone else\u2019s poem that I copied (this happens), but I didn\u2019t find it \u2014 so I assume it is mine. Give a go. Do a dance.Live some more. Take a chance.Eat at home. Go to bed.Try to sleep. In your head. Be &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/lewczyk.net\/tomswritings\/?p=3168\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Be A Clown [Classic] (10 line poem)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/lewczyk.net\/tomswritings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3168"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/lewczyk.net\/tomswritings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/lewczyk.net\/tomswritings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lewczyk.net\/tomswritings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lewczyk.net\/tomswritings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3168"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/lewczyk.net\/tomswritings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3168\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3188,"href":"http:\/\/lewczyk.net\/tomswritings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3168\/revisions\/3188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/lewczyk.net\/tomswritings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lewczyk.net\/tomswritings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lewczyk.net\/tomswritings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}