{"id":5639,"date":"2022-02-03T15:15:30","date_gmt":"2022-02-03T20:15:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/?p=5639"},"modified":"2022-02-03T15:15:30","modified_gmt":"2022-02-03T20:15:30","slug":"pater-familias-paraphernalia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/?p=5639","title":{"rendered":"Pater Familias Paraphernalia"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>Pater familias<\/em> paraphernalia <br>Is a problem in our house: <br>Dad likes to save mementos: <br>Mom likes to throw them out! <br>Everyone&#8217;s got his &#8220;thing&#8221; to do: <br>Some like to work, some like to chew <br>And don&#8217;t know just what to do. <br>We, each, have a plan; <br>Can&#8217;t just sit, (You understand!): <br>Some like to write, some like to clean: <br>Others just like to be mean. <br>Each must chart out his day <br>With chores and a bit of play.<br>I try to be as good as I can be, <br>Walk in His way to stay happy, <br>So it&#8217;s to my poetry I withdraw, <br>Write about wickedness and the Law. <br>(Plenty of sin in each and every day. <br>Confess and repent! It&#8217;s the only way.) <br>But I like to save that &#8220;junk&#8221;; <br>Just got to get us a real big trunk! <br>Got to stay busy or get dusty. <br>Invigorate or you&#8217;ll get rusty.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>0930 on 3 Feb., 2022<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pater familias paraphernalia Is a problem in our house: Dad likes to save mementos: Mom likes to throw them out! Everyone&#8217;s got his &#8220;thing&#8221; to do: Some like to work, some like to chew And don&#8217;t know just what to do. We, each, have a plan; Can&#8217;t just sit, (You understand!): Some like to write, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12,18,30,52,53],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5639"}],"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=5639"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5639\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5640,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5639\/revisions\/5640"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}