{"id":556,"date":"2008-06-06T13:17:08","date_gmt":"2008-06-06T12:17:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.branedy.net\/?p=556"},"modified":"2008-06-06T13:17:08","modified_gmt":"2008-06-06T12:17:08","slug":"a-poem-by-clarence-j-ballou","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/?p=556","title":{"rendered":"A Poem by Clarence J. Ballou"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At the memorial for my Father, a Poem from his Grandfather. <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nI am now at the end of the road to the west<br \/>\nWhere quiet reigns and all is at rest;<br \/>\nAway from the dust and the noise of the town,<br \/>\nTo the end of the road where the sun goes down.<\/p>\n<p>So, along life&#8217;s road as we journey on<br \/>\nLet us meet all our trials with a laugh and a song;<br \/>\nGreet all with a smile and not a frown<br \/>\nAs we come to the end when the Sun goes down.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the memorial for my Father, a Poem from his Grandfather. I am now at the end of the road to the west Where quiet reigns and all is at rest; Away from the dust and the noise of the<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/?p=556\">Read more <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A Poem by Clarence J. Ballou<\/span><span class=\"meta-nav\"> &#8250;<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family","category-lifestyle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=556"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1941,"href":"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556\/revisions\/1941"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}