{"id":66,"date":"2015-07-17T08:24:41","date_gmt":"2015-07-17T15:24:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tomswritings.lewczyk.net\/?p=66"},"modified":"2025-04-21T11:12:44","modified_gmt":"2025-04-21T18:12:44","slug":"the-man-i-thought-i-knew-classic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lewczyk.net\/tomswritings\/?p=66","title":{"rendered":"The Man I Thought I Knew [Classic] (16 line poem)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Though no one knew just how he felt<br \/>\nThey could have told you how he smelt<br \/>\nHe looked as though about to melt<br \/>\nThe man I thought I knew<\/p>\n<p>No one knew just why he stayed<br \/>\nMany hoped the smell would fade<br \/>\nHe smelled like something long decayed<br \/>\nThe man I thought I knew<\/p>\n<p>The way they spoke was very rude<br \/>\nHe did not care how he was viewed<br \/>\nHe never seemed to change his mood<br \/>\nThe man I thought I knew<\/p>\n<p>But now the man has passed away<br \/>\nBut talk of him remains today<br \/>\nHis memory will always stay<br \/>\nThe man I thought I knew<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Though no one knew just how he felt They could have told you how he smelt He looked as though about to melt The man I thought I knew No one knew just why he stayed Many hoped the smell would fade He smelled like something long decayed The man I thought I knew The &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/lewczyk.net\/tomswritings\/?p=66\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Man I Thought I Knew [Classic] (16 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":[5,13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/lewczyk.net\/tomswritings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66"}],"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=66"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/lewczyk.net\/tomswritings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1339,"href":"http:\/\/lewczyk.net\/tomswritings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66\/revisions\/1339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/lewczyk.net\/tomswritings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=66"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lewczyk.net\/tomswritings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=66"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lewczyk.net\/tomswritings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=66"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}