{"id":247,"date":"2013-01-03T06:24:37","date_gmt":"2013-01-03T12:24:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rwmiller.net\/?p=247"},"modified":"2013-01-03T06:28:01","modified_gmt":"2013-01-03T12:28:01","slug":"the-spectator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rwmiller.net\/?p=247","title":{"rendered":"the spectator"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>we love to smash \u2018em up and love to hear \u2018em crash<br \/>\nthe pads, the hardwood pins, or bash the leather ball<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 the timing of those sporting games<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 appropriate, it grabs us all \u2013 such violence<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 around us without feeling any pain<br \/>\nsomeone threw a rock and knocked another off a ledge<br \/>\nand soon we all were betting clams on arms and teams<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 began to form the rocks and clubs were soon outdated though<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u2018cause also when the snow fell fans got cold<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 so owners brought the teams indoors for winter<br \/>\nand as the athletes started bowling, playing basketball in fall<br \/>\nby winter hockey brought the fists a flyin\u2019 lots of blood<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 and fun for all and even racetrack frequenters<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 are hoping for a smashup will it really go much further<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 will we soon be watching murder?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>we love to smash \u2018em up and love to hear \u2018em crash the pads, the hardwood pins, or bash the leather ball \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 the timing of those sporting games \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 appropriate, it grabs us all \u2013 such violence \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 around &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/rwmiller.net\/?p=247\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4,3],"tags":[52,51],"class_list":["post-247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-musings","category-poems","tag-random-violence","tag-sporting"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2K9yT-3Z","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rwmiller.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rwmiller.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rwmiller.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rwmiller.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rwmiller.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=247"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/rwmiller.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":254,"href":"https:\/\/rwmiller.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247\/revisions\/254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rwmiller.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rwmiller.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rwmiller.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}