{"id":799,"date":"2006-11-03T17:49:02","date_gmt":"2006-11-03T23:49:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bittermancircle.com\/wordpress\/writing\/1997\/2-16-97\/"},"modified":"2006-11-03T18:19:55","modified_gmt":"2006-11-04T00:19:55","slug":"2-16-97","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bittermancircle.com\/?page_id=799","title":{"rendered":"2-16-97 town square mosaic"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb_share_1\" style=\"clear:left; float: left; margin-right: 10px; margin-top:10px;;width: 55px;\" name=\"fb_share\"><div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div><script src=\"http:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js#appId=125029517579627&amp;xfbml=1\"><\/script><fb:like href=\"https:\/\/www.bittermancircle.com\/?page_id=799\" send=\"false\" layout=\"box_count\" width=\"55\" show_faces=\"false\" font=\"arial\"><\/fb:like><\/div><p>Zaragosa<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve said it before<br \/>\nBut it always strikes me<br \/>\nWhen I wander over here<br \/>\nLike a soft mallet on a dinner gong<br \/>\nOur lack of history, our need for new<\/p>\n<p>I can only imagine the anger<br \/>\nWhen they drew up the plans<br \/>\nModern adjoins the ancient<br \/>\nBut wait a few more years<br \/>\nFor the bloom off the rose and a little tarnish<br \/>\nAll seems in place<\/p>\n<p>Children move before the basilica<br \/>\nFeeding pigeons and crying at the moon<br \/>\nTheir eyes rising in the mist of the jagged sheen of falling water<br \/>\nOnly to run to Roman walls<br \/>\nTo climb and pronounce their accomplishment<br \/>\nThey are simple, they want only a time stamp, a snapshot<\/p>\n<p>Even though they have zig-zagged across 1500 years of  history in 5     minutes<br \/>\nHoping once again just to fall into the arms of their parents, safe and warm<br \/>\nTo be taken from the stares of Goya and Michael Jordan<br \/>\nHome to be fed and put to bed<\/p>\n<p>They are not yet history<br \/>\nPerhaps time will be kind<br \/>\nPerhaps&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Zaragosa I&#8217;ve said it before But it always strikes me When I wander over here Like a soft mallet on a dinner gong Our lack of history, our need for new I can only imagine the anger When they drew up the plans Modern adjoins the ancient But wait a few more years For the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":793,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"spay_email":""},"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/PeNcU-cT","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bittermancircle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/799"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bittermancircle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bittermancircle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bittermancircle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bittermancircle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=799"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bittermancircle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/799\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bittermancircle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/793"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bittermancircle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}