{"id":3406,"date":"2020-03-30T19:55:41","date_gmt":"2020-03-31T00:55:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/?p=3406"},"modified":"2020-03-30T19:55:41","modified_gmt":"2020-03-31T00:55:41","slug":"wisdom-for-youth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/?p=3406","title":{"rendered":"Wisdom for Youth"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Dost thou piss against the wall <br>And thy stones, be they intact? <br>Didst thou have a nasty fall, <br>Did they fall out of thy sack? <br>Good man, if not, then hearken to me <br>Listen to my sound advice  <br>Lest thou being caught too surly, <br>Snare thy manhood in a vice.  <br>Steer clear of the wayward woman <br>She who winketh with the eye <br>For surely Sheol and Abaddon <br>Underneath her bosom lie <br>Lest thy countenance be fallen <br>And thy seed be sown in vain  <br>Listen now with rapt attention <br>And so avoid that way of pain. <br> <br>Jonathan\u00a0 O&#8217;Toole <br>(Contributing poet)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Posted 30 March, 2020<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dost thou piss against the wall And thy stones, be they intact? Didst thou have a nasty fall, Did they fall out of thy sack? Good man, if not, then hearken to me Listen to my sound advice Lest thou being caught too surly, Snare thy manhood in a vice. Steer clear of the wayward [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12,52],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3406"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3406"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3406\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3407,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3406\/revisions\/3407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}