{"id":4144,"date":"2021-01-11T10:08:11","date_gmt":"2021-01-11T15:08:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/?p=4144"},"modified":"2021-01-11T18:57:11","modified_gmt":"2021-01-11T23:57:11","slug":"dad-was-a-navy-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/?p=4144","title":{"rendered":"Dad Was a Navy Man"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I was born in a town <br>Named after St. James. <br>Dad was a navy man of Jersey fame. <br>Moved around the country, <br>Crossed it two times <br>And we didn&#8217;t whine <br>About being uprooted <br>From places and friends. <br>We learned how to bend <br>And those letters to send. <br>&#8216;Twas actually lots of fun <br>Burning those &#8220;clinics&#8221; they say. <br>(I said nothing to this day.) <br>It was a way to save those <br>Whose moms went astray <br>To kill their very own, <br>Left in misery to groan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>1720 on 12 Dec., 2020 (while the &#8220;fam&#8221; is below, watching a movie)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was born in a town Named after St. James. Dad was a navy man of Jersey fame. Moved around the country, Crossed it two times And we didn&#8217;t whine About being uprooted From places and friends. We learned how to bend And those letters to send. &#8216;Twas actually lots of fun Burning those &#8220;clinics&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[48,50,12,18,52],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4144"}],"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=4144"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4144\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4148,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4144\/revisions\/4148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}