{"id":2846,"date":"2018-08-27T08:29:32","date_gmt":"2018-08-27T15:29:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stickpersonpoetry.com\/spp\/?p=2846"},"modified":"2018-09-04T02:07:12","modified_gmt":"2018-09-04T09:07:12","slug":"180827","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stickpersonpoetry.com\/spp\/2018\/08\/27\/180827\/","title":{"rendered":"180827"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/stickpersonpoetry.com\/images\/2018\/180827.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>180827<br \/>\nWhat&#8217;s worse than a curse?<\/p>\n<p>There is an airport out in Knock<br \/>\nWhere there ain&#8217;t much but stone and rock<br \/>\nThe Holy Mary was seen there<br \/>\nWith Joseph floating in the air<br \/>\nSo Pope Frank went to see the church<br \/>\nWhere Joe and Mary once did perch<br \/>\nThe airport staff waited in line<br \/>\nTo give Francis a shirt to sign<br \/>\nA jinx he was asked to reverse<br \/>\nIn hopes of ending Mayo&#8217;s curse<br \/>\nInstead of such a petty task<br \/>\nA thousand things they could have asked<br \/>\nAbout abuse by priests and nuns<br \/>\nThe church has failed the little ones<br \/>\nLittle remorse, barely regret<br \/>\nBefore he left them in his jet<\/p>\n<button id=\"listenButton1\" class=\"responsivevoice-button\" type=\"button\" value=\"Play\" title=\"ResponsiveVoice Tap to Start\/Stop Speech\"><span>&#128266; Listen to Poem<\/span><\/button>\n        <script>\n            listenButton1.onclick = function(){\n                if(responsiveVoice.isPlaying()){\n                    responsiveVoice.cancel();\n                }else{\n                    responsiveVoice.speak(\"180827 What\\'s worse than a curse? There is an airport out in Knock Where there ain\\'t much but stone and rock The Holy Mary was seen there With Joseph floating in the air So Pope Frank went to see the church Where Joe and Mary once did perch The airport staff waited in line To give Francis a shirt to sign A jinx he was asked to reverse In hopes of ending Mayo\\'s curse Instead of such a petty task A thousand things they could have asked About abuse by priests and nuns The church has failed the little ones Little remorse, barely regret Before he left them in his jet\", \"UK English Female\");\n                }\n            };\n        <\/script>\n    \n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=stickpersonpoet\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>180827 What&#8217;s worse than a curse? There is an airport out in Knock Where there ain&#8217;t much but stone and rock The Holy Mary was seen there With Joseph floating in the air So Pope Frank went to see the church Where Joe and Mary once did perch The airport staff waited in line To &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/stickpersonpoetry.com\/spp\/2018\/08\/27\/180827\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">180827<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[18,29,48,21,64],"class_list":["post-2846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rhymes","tag-celebrities","tag-ireland","tag-planes","tag-pope","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stickpersonpoetry.com\/spp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2846"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stickpersonpoetry.com\/spp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stickpersonpoetry.com\/spp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stickpersonpoetry.com\/spp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stickpersonpoetry.com\/spp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2846"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/stickpersonpoetry.com\/spp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2846\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2855,"href":"https:\/\/stickpersonpoetry.com\/spp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2846\/revisions\/2855"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stickpersonpoetry.com\/spp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stickpersonpoetry.com\/spp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stickpersonpoetry.com\/spp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}