{"id":1755,"date":"2023-06-03T08:21:01","date_gmt":"2023-06-03T15:21:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ralockhart.com\/WP\/?p=1755"},"modified":"2023-06-03T08:21:01","modified_gmt":"2023-06-03T15:21:01","slug":"the-old-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ralockhart.com\/WP\/the-old-man\/","title":{"rendered":"The Old Man"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">The Old Man<\/span><\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Sitting a table away<\/p>\n<p>I heard the old man say<\/p>\n<p>To a young boy<\/p>\n<p>Possibly his grandson:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBack in my day<\/p>\n<p>Come what may<\/p>\n<p>We would always say<\/p>\n<p>With eyes closed:<\/p>\n<p>Buck up!<\/p>\n<p>Buck up!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDid it work?\u201d the lad asks<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOh yes, indeed<\/p>\n<p>Bet your bean stalks<\/p>\n<p>On it, you could.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBean stalks?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDon\u2019t hear much these days<\/p>\n<p>About bean stalks, but then,<\/p>\n<p>Back then, everyone had \u2018em.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCould you get me one, Grandpa?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>\u201cNo, son, I can\u2019t, I can\u2019t.<\/h2>\n<p>But you can. Just ask for one<\/p>\n<p>In your dreams.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Old Man Sitting a table away I heard the old man say To a young boy Possibly his grandson: &nbsp; \u201cBack in my day Come what may We would always say With eyes closed: Buck up! Buck up!\u201d &nbsp; \u201cDid it work?\u201d the lad asks &nbsp; \u201cOh yes, indeed Bet your bean stalks On [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1755","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coming-soon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ralockhart.com\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1755","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ralockhart.com\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ralockhart.com\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ralockhart.com\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ralockhart.com\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1755"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ralockhart.com\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1755\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1756,"href":"https:\/\/www.ralockhart.com\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1755\/revisions\/1756"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ralockhart.com\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ralockhart.com\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ralockhart.com\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}