{"id":292,"date":"2003-02-19T16:31:00","date_gmt":"2003-02-19T16:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/delascabezas.com\/blog\/index.php\/2019\/02\/20\/poem-of-the-day\/"},"modified":"2019-02-20T21:56:21","modified_gmt":"2019-02-20T21:56:21","slug":"poem-of-the-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/delascabezas.com\/blog\/index.php\/2003\/02\/19\/poem-of-the-day\/","title":{"rendered":"poem of the day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Mmenson&#8221;<\/p>\n<p> Summon now the kings of the forest,<br \/>\n horn of the elephant,<br \/>\n mournful call of the elephant;<\/p>\n<p> summon the emirs, kings of the desert,<br \/>\n horses caparisoned, beaten gold bent,<br \/>\n archers and criers, porcupine arrows, bows bent;<\/p>\n<p> recount now the gains and the losses:<br \/>\n Agades, Sokoto, El Hassan dead in his tent,<br \/>\n the silks and the brasses, the slow weary tent<\/p>\n<p> of our journeys down slopes, dry river courses,<br \/>\n land of the lion, land of the leopard, elephant,<br \/>\n country; tall grasses, thick prickly herbs. Blow elephant<\/p>\n<p> trumpet; summon the horses,<br \/>\n dead horses, our losses: the bent<br \/>\n slow bow of the Congo, the watering Niger&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Edward Kamau Braithwaite<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Mmenson&#8221; Summon now the kings of the forest, horn of the elephant, mournful call of the elephant; summon the emirs, kings of the desert, horses<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"chat","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[82],"class_list":["post-292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-chat","hentry","tag-lethargic","post_format-post-format-chat"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/delascabezas.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/delascabezas.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/delascabezas.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/delascabezas.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/delascabezas.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=292"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/delascabezas.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2865,"href":"https:\/\/delascabezas.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292\/revisions\/2865"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/delascabezas.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/delascabezas.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/delascabezas.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}