{"id":428,"date":"2016-10-24T06:26:25","date_gmt":"2016-10-24T06:26:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetembo.com\/clip\/?p=428"},"modified":"2016-11-12T19:47:22","modified_gmt":"2016-11-12T19:47:22","slug":"a-reckoning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetembo.com\/clip\/2016\/10\/24\/a-reckoning\/","title":{"rendered":"A Reckoning"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><pre>You promised that you'd do it\r\nWhen the Cubs won the series\r\nThe chances so improbable,\r\nIt wouldn't happen even in theory,\r\n\r\nThe girl you said you'd marry,\r\nWhen the Cubs won the series\r\nWell its fifty years later,\r\nI hope you love her dearly\r\n\r\nThe debt you said you'd pay back\r\nWhen the Cubs won the series,\r\nWell its forty years later,\r\nThe interest accruing yearly\r\n\r\nAll the healthy things you said you'd do\r\nWhen the Cubs won the series,\r\nWell its thirty years later,\r\nEven your scale refuses query\r\n\r\nYou told me you'd put spots on zebras\r\nWhen the Cubs won the series,\r\nWell its twenty years later,\r\nSpots instead of jail stripes would be rather cheery\r\n\r\nYou promised me a ton of cheese\r\nWhen the Cubs topped the world,\r\nWell its ten years later,\r\nAnd your milk hasn't curdled\r\n\r\nYou thought it would be the end of time\r\nWhen the Cubs won the series,\r\nThere is no more waiting now\r\nYour plight is getting serious.\r\n\r\nA day of reckoning is here\r\nYour old promises you mock\r\nNow you will be accountable\r\nWhen the Cubs put you on the spot<\/pre>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>You promised that you&#8217;d do it When the Cubs won the series The chances so improbable, It wouldn&#8217;t happen even in theory, The girl you said you&#8217;d marry, When the Cubs won the series Well its fifty years later, I hope you love her dearly The debt you said you&#8217;d pay back When the Cubs [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetembo.com\/clip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetembo.com\/clip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetembo.com\/clip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetembo.com\/clip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetembo.com\/clip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=428"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetembo.com\/clip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":429,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetembo.com\/clip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428\/revisions\/429"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetembo.com\/clip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetembo.com\/clip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetembo.com\/clip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}