{"id":5328,"date":"2013-01-29T09:44:00","date_gmt":"2013-01-29T09:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/?p=5328"},"modified":"2013-01-29T09:46:09","modified_gmt":"2013-01-29T09:46:09","slug":"clown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2013\/01\/clown\/","title":{"rendered":"Clown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>He was never really<br \/>\nhappy<br \/>\nwhen the circus came to town<br \/>\nhe wore his badge of courage<br \/>\nhis white perpetual frown<\/p>\n<p>his papier mache features<br \/>\ngave him a scary look<br \/>\nbehind the mask to those who ask<br \/>\nhe just lived by the book<\/p>\n<p>with all those travelling people<br \/>\nhe never got along<br \/>\na nomad he had never been<br \/>\nwith them he just felt wrong<\/p>\n<p>he had met an Indian women<br \/>\non a dusty bus in Delhi<br \/>\nand she had shown him happiness<br \/>\nbut left him when his love<br \/>\nwas rampant<br \/>\ndisease had spread into her and her life<br \/>\nleft her and it left him too, he loved her<br \/>\nhe&#8217;d worshipped her and so as to survive<br \/>\nhe returned to England feeling desolate<br \/>\nand joined a troupe of clowns performing live<\/p>\n<p>in circus, schools and hospitals<br \/>\nentertaining those<br \/>\nchildren who apparently<br \/>\nliked his red ball nose<br \/>\nbehind his mask<br \/>\nhis eyes were full of tears<br \/>\nhe missed her so<br \/>\nshe comforted him and to lose her left him<br \/>\nwith such woe<br \/>\nthe clowns he knew most of them were hiding<br \/>\nfar from free<br \/>\nescaping to a world of pain far from reality<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Clowns make us laugh or do they? <a href=\"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2013\/01\/clown\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-poems"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5328","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5328"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5328\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5330,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5328\/revisions\/5330"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}