{"id":1723,"date":"2024-02-22T00:18:01","date_gmt":"2024-02-22T00:18:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/parmenidean.is\/wp\/?p=1723"},"modified":"2026-02-23T17:20:52","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T17:20:52","slug":"snowball-fight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/parmenidean.is\/wp\/?p=1723","title":{"rendered":"Snowball Fight"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Bearing God within,<br>I step back into the cold<br>Only for the battle to begin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The sight of me makes them bold<br>With spheres, not spears, they assail<br>Hitting me here, and then there; I do not fold.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Against these boys I shall prevail<br>I return, throwing and chasing with a man\u2019s power<br>Even grabbing one; but with jest I am met, not a wail.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>How much fun we had in that hour!<br>Though <em>ritters<\/em> fell not in our fray of frost<br>This new Rudau left me in victory dour.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I smile now to think of those balls tossed<br>Indeed, in the end no one lost.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;But Jesus said to them: Suffer the little children, and forbid them not to come to me: for the kingdom of heaven is for such.&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8211; Matthew 19:14<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[22,26,59],"class_list":["post-1723","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poems","tag-history","tag-nature","tag-relationships"],"gutentor_comment":0,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/parmenidean.is\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1723","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/parmenidean.is\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/parmenidean.is\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/parmenidean.is\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/parmenidean.is\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1723"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/parmenidean.is\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1723\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1733,"href":"https:\/\/parmenidean.is\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1723\/revisions\/1733"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/parmenidean.is\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/parmenidean.is\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/parmenidean.is\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}