{"id":92569,"date":"2012-07-13T09:42:24","date_gmt":"2012-07-13T13:42:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/92569\/grand-day\/"},"modified":"2012-07-13T09:42:24","modified_gmt":"2012-07-13T13:42:24","slug":"grand-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/92569\/grand-day\/","title":{"rendered":"On That Grand Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/s927.photobucket.com\/albums\/ad114\/mrobinking\/?action=view&amp;current=Titanic12.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i927.photobucket.com\/albums\/ad114\/mrobinking\/Titanic12.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Photobucket\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>On That Grand Day<\/p>\n<p>~~<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019d love to go back one hundred years ago<br \/>\nBefore heading out in the North Atlantic<br \/>\nAnd meet all passengers first class and below<br \/>\nWhile touring the unsinkable \u201cTitanic\u201d<br \/>\nWith every detail I would love to know<br \/>\nAnd gaze at the ship that was so gigantic<br \/>\nThe captain stating \u201d The ship unsinkable\u201d<br \/>\nIt seemed impossible and unthinkable<\/p>\n<p>~~<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/s927.photobucket.com\/albums\/ad114\/mrobinking\/?action=view&amp;current=Captain-Edward-Smith-rms-titanic-849970_423_599.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i927.photobucket.com\/albums\/ad114\/mrobinking\/Captain-Edward-Smith-rms-titanic-849970_423_599.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Photobucket\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/s927.photobucket.com\/albums\/ad114\/mrobinking\/?action=view&amp;current=01_grand_staircase.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i927.photobucket.com\/albums\/ad114\/mrobinking\/01_grand_staircase.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Photobucket\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>While meeting Captain Edward Smith face to face,<br \/>\nWould he believe me if I told of his fate<br \/>\nAs he walked me down the stunning grand staircase?<br \/>\nHe\u2019d probably command orders to his first mate<br \/>\nDemanding to have me get off the ship&#8217;s base<br \/>\nWhen I mention a disaster that will create<br \/>\nAs they travel through thick fog, dark and hazy<br \/>\nAnd hitting an iceberg, they\u2019d think I was crazy<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/s927.photobucket.com\/albums\/ad114\/mrobinking\/?action=view&amp;current=iceberg.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i927.photobucket.com\/albums\/ad114\/mrobinking\/iceberg.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Photobucket\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>~~<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/s927.photobucket.com\/albums\/ad114\/mrobinking\/?action=view&amp;current=Titanic_lifeboat.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i927.photobucket.com\/albums\/ad114\/mrobinking\/Titanic_lifeboat.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Photobucket\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/s927.photobucket.com\/albums\/ad114\/mrobinking\/?action=view&amp;current=newsboy.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i927.photobucket.com\/albums\/ad114\/mrobinking\/newsboy.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Photobucket\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I know I could never make history change<br \/>\nBut how great it would be to go back and see<br \/>\nYet an eerie setting that might feel quite strange<br \/>\nKnowing what will happen when they set out to sea<br \/>\nIf only I could convince course to rearrange<br \/>\nThen the fatal history might never be<br \/>\nNo one would believe I was from the future<br \/>\nTrying to mend a wounded past with a suture<\/p>\n<p>Michelle R. King<br \/>\n07-13-12<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/s927.photobucket.com\/albums\/ad114\/mrobinking\/?action=view&amp;current=01_titanic_bow.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i927.photobucket.com\/albums\/ad114\/mrobinking\/01_titanic_bow.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Photobucket\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This was written for the Friday Fling at the CPC. We are time traveling into the past and or future writing about who we would like to meet or what we would like to see.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On That Grand Day ~~ I\u2019d love to go back one hundred years ago Before heading out in the North Atlantic And meet all passengers first class and below While touring the unsinkable \u201cTitanic\u201d With every detail I would love to know And gaze at the ship that was so gigantic The captain stating \u201d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-92569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92569","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=92569"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92569\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}