{"id":1287,"date":"2009-10-01T22:01:31","date_gmt":"2009-10-01T22:01:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/meeseeks:5080\/blog\/?p=1287"},"modified":"2009-10-01T22:01:31","modified_gmt":"2009-10-01T22:01:31","slug":"poem-the-workmans-friend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/2009\/10\/poem-the-workmans-friend\/","title":{"rendered":"Poem:  The Workman&#039;s Friend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of my favourite poems, by Irish comic novelist and journalist Flann O&#8217;Brien (<em>aka<\/em> Brian O&#8217;Nolan <em>aka<\/em> Myles na gCopaleen) (1911-1966):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>The Workman&#8217;s Friend<\/em><br \/>\nWhen things go wrong and will not come right,<br \/>\nThough you do the best you can,<br \/>\nWhen life looks black as the hour of night &#8211;<br \/>\nA pint of plain is your only man.<br \/>\nWhen money&#8217;s tight and hard to get<br \/>\nAnd your horse has also ran,<br \/>\nWhen all you have is a heap of debt &#8211;<br \/>\nA pint of plain is your only man.<br \/>\nWhen health is bad and your heart feels strange,<br \/>\nAnd your face is pale and wan,<br \/>\nWhen doctors say you need a change,<br \/>\nA pint of plain is your only man.<br \/>\nWhen food is scarce and your larder bare<br \/>\nAnd no rashers grease your pan,<br \/>\nWhen hunger grows as your meals are rare &#8211;<br \/>\nA pint of plain is your only man.<br \/>\nIn time of trouble and lousey strife,<br \/>\nYou have still got a darlint plan<br \/>\nYou still can turn to a brighter life &#8211;<br \/>\nA pint of plain is your only man.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of my favourite poems, by Irish comic novelist and journalist Flann O&#8217;Brien (aka Brian O&#8217;Nolan aka Myles na gCopaleen) (1911-1966): The Workman&#8217;s Friend When things go wrong and will not come right, Though you do the best you can, When life looks black as the hour of night &#8211; A pint of plain is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry","p1","y2009","m10","d01","h22"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1287","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1287"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1287\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}