{"id":6301,"date":"2022-08-18T10:42:18","date_gmt":"2022-08-18T15:42:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/?p=6301"},"modified":"2022-08-24T12:28:35","modified_gmt":"2022-08-24T17:28:35","slug":"the-easy-name-of-bray","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/?p=6301","title":{"rendered":"The Easy Name of Bray"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Both my sisters took on the affliction <br>Of tri-syllabic last names! <br>Surely they have suffered great pain; <br>T&#8217;was simple to indite that name, &#8220;Bray&#8221;! <br>Four simple letters!\u00a0 An easy way <br>To sign those papers or a check. <br>But now, Oh! What the heck! <br>B-R-U-N-S-T-E-T-T-E R !<br>P-E-N-D-E-R-G-R-A-S-S! <br>O, sisters, you got yourself in a mess! <br>Sorry you had to leave the easy way <br>And give up that simple name, &#8220;Bray.&#8221; <br>But, then again, at the end of the day, <br>To have some kids, it&#8217;s the only way, <br>And those kids are not too bad; <br>Bringing pride to any scrutinizing dad.<br>Mono- y mono- don&#8217;t ya know!<br>It&#8217;s the easy way to go.<br>Bray and Green are singular;<br>Maybe won&#8217;t give you a tingle,<br>But keeps you from twisin&#8217; that tongue.<br>(Songs of praise will be sung!)<br>For the easy checks you will sing,<br>Providing more time to opine<br>And tend to matters of affection<br>Giving your life some direction. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">1115  and 1204 on 18 July,2022<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Both my sisters took on the affliction Of tri-syllabic last names! Surely they have suffered great pain; T&#8217;was simple to indite that name, &#8220;Bray&#8221;! Four simple letters!\u00a0 An easy way To sign those papers or a check. But now, Oh! What the heck! B-R-U-N-S-T-E-T-T-E R !P-E-N-D-E-R-G-R-A-S-S! O, sisters, you got yourself in a mess! Sorry [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,17,52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family-matters","category-fathers-rights","category-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6301","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=6301"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6301\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6330,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6301\/revisions\/6330"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}