{"id":3247,"date":"2024-02-18T08:30:00","date_gmt":"2024-02-18T16:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rhmcd.com\/?p=3247"},"modified":"2024-03-04T11:18:37","modified_gmt":"2024-03-04T19:18:37","slug":"spirit-of-laughter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rhmcd.com\/?p=3247","title":{"rendered":"Spirit of Laughter"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Spirit of Life, and Love, and Laughter<br>Praise the joker, the jester, the clown.<br>Bless the comic who stands up to the dour<br>The fool at his highest when his pants are down.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Here\u2019s to the flower that squirts the sniffer<br>The weirdos, the wacky, the silly disguise.<br>Praise for the innocent truth-teller, guileless<br>And an actual wise-guy, schooling the wise.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">What a gift to be lifted when low<br>To be downed a peg when we\u2019re proud<br>To allow the glory of human folly<br>And to hear the last laugh laughed loud.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When our souls are sick and sinking<br>Throw us a life-line of mirth.<br>One word, the syllable \u201cHa!\u201d<br>Has power to humor the earth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spirit of Life, and Love, and LaughterPraise the joker, the jester, the clown.Bless the comic who stands up to the&hellip; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/rhmcd.com\/?p=3247\">Read more <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Spirit of Laughter<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poems","category-writing"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rhmcd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3247","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rhmcd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rhmcd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rhmcd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rhmcd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3247"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/rhmcd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3247\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3270,"href":"https:\/\/rhmcd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3247\/revisions\/3270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rhmcd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rhmcd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rhmcd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}