{"id":10917,"date":"2022-05-31T18:15:34","date_gmt":"2022-05-31T17:15:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stuartpoetry.art\/?p=10917"},"modified":"2022-06-02T21:52:00","modified_gmt":"2022-06-02T20:52:00","slug":"the-clown-and-the-fire-maiden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/2022\/05\/31\/the-clown-and-the-fire-maiden\/","title":{"rendered":"The Clown and the Fire Maiden"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Most people love me because of my silly clothes and decorated face<\/p>\n<p>They do not care for reality as they too have disguised themselves<\/p>\n<p>And I am just an extension of this absurd fantasy it is as simple as that<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>But of late I have tired of my theatre as I have a good but serious heart<\/p>\n<p>I want to live the life of an ordinary man and not a flippant clown<\/p>\n<p>The circus is no longer my world and I am leaving after this season ends<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Yet I have not stepped into a vacancy as a trapeze artist has captured my heart<\/p>\n<p>We will be setting up home together in Ireland the country of her birth<\/p>\n<p>She has a reputation for being a fire maiden because of her looks but this untrue<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>As she is the gentlest creature that I have ever know shy modest fragile and free<\/p>\n<p>No longer will she fly like a bird and no longer will I be the painted fool<\/p>\n<p>We have finished our travels and intend to stand still until we receive Gods direction<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Red Poem Number Four\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most people love me because of my silly clothes and decorated face They do not care for reality as they too have disguised themselves And I am just an extension of this absurd fantasy it is as simple as that &nbsp; But of late I have tired of my theatre as I have a good [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10917","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10917","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10917"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10917\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10921,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10917\/revisions\/10921"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}