{"id":540,"date":"2013-07-06T00:13:47","date_gmt":"2013-07-05T23:13:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/draigweb.co.uk\/draigweb\/?p=540"},"modified":"2013-07-06T00:44:10","modified_gmt":"2013-07-05T23:44:10","slug":"juvenilia-the-layman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.draigweb.co.uk\/draigweb\/juvenilia-the-layman\/","title":{"rendered":"Juvenilia: The Layman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>About the market place at dawn<br \/>\nWhere seldom passed a wary ear,<br \/>\nThere stood a man amongst the fray &#8211;<br \/>\nHis hair shone white, his eyes gleamed clear.<\/p>\n<p>His form erect did on the mound<br \/>\nPreside his ministry each day;<br \/>\nHis aged lips did gospels speak<br \/>\nHis ancient voice the Word did say.<\/p>\n<p>The layman to the crowds did preach,<br \/>\nHe questioned them with teaching pure &#8211;<br \/>\nHe begged the masses to repent,<br \/>\nHe fought with ignorance to cure.<\/p>\n<p>Confronted cruelty and despair,<br \/>\nAwoke compassion through his word,<br \/>\nBut as crowd did mock and jeer<br \/>\nHe to ground and death was hurled.<\/p>\n<p>And the people did repent,<br \/>\nLooked on prophet in the slough &#8211;<br \/>\nCast their faces to their hands,<br \/>\nSought another truth to slay.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About the market place at dawn Where seldom passed a wary ear, There stood a man amongst the fray &#8211; His hair shone white, his eyes gleamed clear. His form erect did on the mound Preside his ministry each day; His aged lips did gospels speak His ancient voice the Word did say. The layman [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.draigweb.co.uk\/draigweb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.draigweb.co.uk\/draigweb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.draigweb.co.uk\/draigweb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.draigweb.co.uk\/draigweb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.draigweb.co.uk\/draigweb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=540"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.draigweb.co.uk\/draigweb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":574,"href":"https:\/\/www.draigweb.co.uk\/draigweb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540\/revisions\/574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.draigweb.co.uk\/draigweb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.draigweb.co.uk\/draigweb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.draigweb.co.uk\/draigweb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}