{"id":6675,"date":"2022-10-27T07:38:34","date_gmt":"2022-10-27T12:38:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/?p=6675"},"modified":"2022-10-27T07:38:34","modified_gmt":"2022-10-27T12:38:34","slug":"lamentations-over-a-trapped-skunk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/?p=6675","title":{"rendered":"Lamentations Over a Trapped Skunk"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>(A.k.a. &#8220;A War with Nature&#8221;)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Trapped that skunk and dragged <br>His mammalian ass into the pond <br>Where he met his doom and drowned! <br>No more stinkin&#8217; up our house; <br>We trapped your ass like a mouse! <br>Put you down under that water; <br>You&#8217;re done bein&#8217; a master farter!  <br>But, really, I&#8217;m sorry, little skunk; <br>It&#8217;s not that you&#8217;re a nasty punk. <br>You gotta do what you gotta do, <br>And you can&#8217;t help put out that do-do. <br>The good Lord made you what you are <br>Just like the heavens and the stars! <br>But for real, you won&#8217;t be missed <br>Unless those baby skunks get pissed, <br>Come back with a mighty haste <br>And spray that stink all over this place!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>1630 on 23 Oct., 2022<br>(Poetry for the Common Man)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(A.k.a. &#8220;A War with Nature&#8221;) Trapped that skunk and dragged His mammalian ass into the pond Where he met his doom and drowned! No more stinkin&#8217; up our house; We trapped your ass like a mouse! Put you down under that water; You&#8217;re done bein&#8217; a master farter! But, really, I&#8217;m sorry, little skunk; It&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[51,52],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6675"}],"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=6675"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6675\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6676,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6675\/revisions\/6676"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}