{"id":2612,"date":"2017-04-08T22:01:23","date_gmt":"2017-04-09T01:01:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eayrs.com\/blog\/?p=2612"},"modified":"2017-04-09T07:25:04","modified_gmt":"2017-04-09T10:25:04","slug":"the-rime-of-the-unwanted-wedding-guest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eayrs.com\/blog\/archives\/2612","title":{"rendered":"The rime of the unwanted wedding guest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>With apologies to Coleridge and de la Mere<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u2018Is there anybody there?\u2019 said the Bailiff,<br \/>\nKnocking on the vestry door;<br \/>\nHis super turbo 4&#215;4<br \/>\nIn sympathetic roar.<br \/>\nAnd an owl flew out of the belfry,<br \/>\nAnd a distant hawk did cry,<br \/>\nAnd a black cat hissed at the Bailiff,<br \/>\nAnd some travellers passed by.<\/p>\n<p>But the wedding party was long gone<br \/>\nThe bride and groom had kissed.<br \/>\nAnd all had gone to the Rose and Swan<br \/>\nWhere most were fairly pissed.<br \/>\nAnd no one saw the Bailiff<br \/>\nWho came to church that day,<br \/>\nWalk back to car with writ unserved,<br \/>\nRev up, and drive away.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With apologies to Coleridge and de la Mere \u2018Is there anybody there?\u2019 said the Bailiff, Knocking on the vestry door; His super turbo 4&#215;4 In sympathetic roar. And an owl flew out of the belfry, And a distant hawk did &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eayrs.com\/blog\/archives\/2612\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,28,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-for-fb","category-poetry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eayrs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2612","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eayrs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eayrs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eayrs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eayrs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2612"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.eayrs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2612\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2623,"href":"https:\/\/www.eayrs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2612\/revisions\/2623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eayrs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eayrs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eayrs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}