tick tocks the days of our lives
\nfencing for safety of our hearts
\nblueberry pie or apple-pan-dowdie
\nwe break our own hearts says Shorty
\nwith fanciful expectations
\nelections whistling dixie
\npainted faces wiry smiles
\ncounting down to Turkey day
\nwho will be the pumpkin eater
\nwho shoots off their thumb
\nwhen a simple thumb’s up will do
\nif we decorated Thanksgiving day
\nwith Christmas decorations
\nand Halloween becomes thanks
\ncan we save the leaves of Autumn
\nand let down our guard?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
tick tocks the days of our lives fencing for safety of our hearts blueberry pie or apple-pan-dowdie we break our own hearts says Shorty with fanciful expectations elections whistling dixie painted faces wiry smiles counting down to Turkey day who will be the pumpkin eater who shoots off their thumb when a simple thumb’s up … Continue reading “On Guard”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/motherbird.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/motherbird.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/motherbird.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/motherbird.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/motherbird.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=497"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/motherbird.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/motherbird.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/motherbird.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/motherbird.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}