{"id":4312,"date":"2021-02-24T21:56:32","date_gmt":"2021-02-25T02:56:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/?p=4312"},"modified":"2021-02-24T21:56:32","modified_gmt":"2021-02-25T02:56:32","slug":"jovial-jessica","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/?p=4312","title":{"rendered":"Jovial Jessica"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Jovial Jessica Jumps through hoops <br>To make miserable men merry <br>She draws out conversations, <br>Overcomes the frustrations<br>Of aging and memory failures. <br>Like the ticking of the clocks <br>She drives through the blocks <br>To get where she needs to go, <br>And sometimes they may not show, <br>But onward she goes to her duty. <br>(It may help that she&#8217;s quite the cutie.) <br>Comes up to the door <br>Gets on with her chore  <br>Tapping brains and urging prattle <br>(Rather put some in a saddle!) <br>But she gets the job done <br>Then she&#8217;s on the run <br>To another home to find <br>Not those deaf or blind <br>But folks who&#8217;ve lost the mind.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">24 Feb., 2021 at 1621<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jovial Jessica Jumps through hoops To make miserable men merry She draws out conversations, Overcomes the frustrationsOf aging and memory failures. Like the ticking of the clocks She drives through the blocks To get where she needs to go, And sometimes they may not show, But onward she goes to her duty. (It may help [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,18,52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-character-or-not","category-family-matters","category-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4312","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"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=4312"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4312\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4313,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4312\/revisions\/4313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}