{"id":192,"date":"2010-01-14T17:46:21","date_gmt":"2010-01-14T21:46:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/leahyinstitute.org\/?page_id=192"},"modified":"2010-01-14T17:46:21","modified_gmt":"2010-01-14T21:46:21","slug":"the-tightrope-walker","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/leahyinstitute.org\/?page_id=192","title":{"rendered":"The Tightrope Walker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Tightrope Walker<\/p>\n<p>The tightrope walker<\/p>\n<p>Inches forward<\/p>\n<p>Amazing the crowd with his nerves of steel<\/p>\n<p>And his calm eyes that show no fear<\/p>\n<p>As he gazes into the darkness ahead,<\/p>\n<p>Searching for his safety.<\/p>\n<p>Yet his confidence, he knows,<\/p>\n<p>This frail and fragile strength,<\/p>\n<p>Like the rope beneath him,<\/p>\n<p>Is all that defies gravity<\/p>\n<p>And its tug of doom.<\/p>\n<p>Yet also, this strength<\/p>\n<p>Too overindulged, will<\/p>\n<p>Off the left instead of the right<\/p>\n<p>Hurl him from his perch at breakneck speed<\/p>\n<p>Down to break his neck.<\/p>\n<p>John E Leahy<\/p>\n<p>Ca 1970<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Tightrope Walker The tightrope walker Inches forward Amazing the crowd with his nerves of steel And his calm eyes that show no fear As he gazes into the darkness ahead, Searching for his safety. Yet his confidence, he knows, This frail and fragile strength, Like the rope beneath him, Is all that defies gravity [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":266,"featured_media":0,"parent":100,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-192","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/leahyinstitute.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/192","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/leahyinstitute.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/leahyinstitute.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leahyinstitute.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/266"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leahyinstitute.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=192"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/leahyinstitute.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/192\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":193,"href":"https:\/\/leahyinstitute.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/192\/revisions\/193"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leahyinstitute.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/leahyinstitute.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}