{"id":128,"date":"2002-09-17T22:32:00","date_gmt":"2002-09-17T22:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/?p=128"},"modified":"2002-09-17T22:32:00","modified_gmt":"2002-09-17T22:32:00","slug":"sitting-on-my-toadstool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/2002-09\/128-sitting-on-my-toadstool","title":{"rendered":"Sitting on my toadstool"},"content":{"rendered":"<pre>Sitting on my toadstool \rI look out over an \revergreen dream \rbeyond the edge of reality \ras the sea nymph beckons \rto me calling me by name. \rInto the water I jump \rhead first without a care \rnever once remembering \rthat I never learned to swim \rand as I go under I regret \rI never learned the rules of the game. \rTime after Time over again \reach time I jump \rheadlong into the fray \rI sink below the quagmire \rAnd as I grow older I never learn \rthat things are still the same. \rBelow the level of my head \rI sink....<\/pre>\n<p><font SIZE=-1 COLOR=\"#FF0000\"><i>As published in <\/i>The Zero Card<i>, January, 2000. Originally dates back to 1986.<\/i><\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sitting on my toadstool I look out over an evergreen dream beyond the edge of reality as the sea nymph beckons to me calling me by name. Into the water I jump head first without a care never once remembering &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/2002-09\/128-sitting-on-my-toadstool\">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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=128"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}