{"id":102509,"date":"2013-01-17T23:09:04","date_gmt":"2013-01-18T04:09:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/102509\/poem-franklin-my-dear-he-gave-a-damn\/"},"modified":"2013-01-17T23:09:04","modified_gmt":"2013-01-18T04:09:04","slug":"poem-franklin-my-dear-he-gave-a-damn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/102509\/poem-franklin-my-dear-he-gave-a-damn\/","title":{"rendered":"POEM: Franklin, My Dear&#8230;He Gave A Damn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font face=\"arial, helvetica, sans-serif\" size=\"4\"><strong><em>This was written to the theme of Benjamin Franklin on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.friendburst.com\/blog\/102429\/thematic-attic-remembering-benjamin-franklin\/\">CPC Thematic Attic Thursday poetry challenge<\/a>.<\/em><\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/s136.photobucket.com\/albums\/q183\/scotorum\/my%20photos\/Historical\/?action=view&amp;current=137-one-hundred-dollar-bill.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/i136.photobucket.com\/albums\/q183\/scotorum\/my%20photos\/Historical\/137-one-hundred-dollar-bill.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Photobucket\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><font face=\"arial, helvetica, sans-serif\" size=\"5\"><strong>FRANKLIN, MY DEAR&#8230;HE GAVE A DAMN<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><font face=\"arial, helvetica, sans-serif\" size=\"4\"><strong>Ben Franklin an American icon<br \/>\nelectrified students at college.<br \/>\nNothing to it to liken,<br \/>\nlightning our long path with knowledge.<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><font face=\"arial, helvetica, sans-serif\" size=\"4\"><strong>Founder of famous almanac<br \/>\nso farmers new wisdom would find.<br \/>\nKeep their crops growing on track,<br \/>\nand produce a great harvest of mind.<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><font face=\"arial, helvetica, sans-serif\" size=\"4\"><strong>Ambassador of goodwill overseas,<br \/>\nhe tarried with ladies and Kings,<br \/>\nuntil he saw Parliament&#8217;s sleaze,<br \/>\nand returned to where freedom bell rings.<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><font face=\"arial, helvetica, sans-serif\" size=\"4\"><strong>As a crafter of Liberty&#8217;s rules,<br \/>\nemerging from convention sit,<br \/>\nreplied when asked what it had made:<br \/>\n&#8220;A republic, if you can keep it.&#8221;<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><font face=\"arial, helvetica, sans-serif\" size=\"3\">Copyright January 17th 2013 RGD<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This was written to the theme of Benjamin Franklin on the CPC Thematic Attic Thursday poetry challenge. FRANKLIN, MY DEAR&#8230;HE GAVE A DAMN Ben Franklin an American icon electrified students at college. Nothing to it to liken, lightning our long path with knowledge. Founder of famous almanac so farmers new wisdom would find. Keep their [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-102509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poems"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102509","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102509"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102509\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}