{"id":1910,"date":"2009-11-11T15:31:00","date_gmt":"2009-11-11T15:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/janaremy.com\/?p=1910"},"modified":"2009-11-11T15:31:00","modified_gmt":"2009-11-11T15:31:00","slug":"bouncing-round-for-years-and-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.janaremy.com\/pilgrimsteps\/2009\/11\/11\/bouncing-round-for-years-and-years\/","title":{"rendered":"bouncing round for years and years&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<style type=\"text\/css\">.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; }<\/style>\n<div class=\"flickr-frame\">\t<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/onkel_wart\/2516592228\/\" title=\"photo sharing\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2096\/2516592228_0c4c7caccf.jpg\" class=\"flickr-photo\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><br \/>\t<span class=\"flickr-caption\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/onkel_wart\/2516592228\/\">poppy love&#8230;. #4 &#8212; squaRED<\/a>, originally uploaded by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/people\/onkel_wart\/\">onkel_wart<\/a>.<\/span><\/div>\n<p class=\"flickr-yourcomment\">\t<b>The Box, by John Denver<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Once upon a time in the land of Hushabye<br \/>Around about the wondrous days of yore<br \/>They came across a sort of box<br \/>Bound up with chains and locked with locks<br \/>And labeled &#8220;Kindly Do Not Touch, it&#8217;s war&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>A decree was issued round about<br \/>And all with a flourish and a shout<br \/>And a gaily colored mascot tripping lightly on before<br \/>&#8220;don&#8221;t fiddle with this deadly box<br \/>&#8220;or break the chains or pick the locks<br \/>&#8220;And please, don&#8217;t ever play about with war&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Well the children understood<br \/>children happen to be good<br \/>they were just as good around the time of yore<br \/>they didn&#8217;t try to pick the locks<br \/>or break in to that deadly box<br \/>they never tried to play about with war<\/p>\n<p>Mommies didn&#8217;t either<br \/>sisters, aunts, grannies neither, cuz<br \/>They were quiet, sweet and pretty in those wondrous days of yore<br \/>Well..very much the same as now<br \/>Not the ones to blame somehow<br \/>for opening up that deadly box of war.<\/p>\n<p>But someone did,<br \/>Someone battered in the lid<br \/>and spilled the insides out across the floor<br \/>A sort of bouncy bumpy ball, made up of guns and flags and all the tears and horror and the death, that goes with war.<\/p>\n<p>It bounced right out and went bashing all about<br \/>And bumping into everything in store<br \/>and what was sad and most unfair<br \/>Is that it didn&#8217;t really seem to care much who it bumped<br \/>Or why, or what, or for.<\/p>\n<p>It bumped the children mainly<br \/>And I&#8217;ll tell you this quite plainly<br \/>It bumps them every day and more, and more<br \/>And leaves them dead and burned and dying<br \/>Thousands of them sick and crying<br \/>&#8216;Cuz when it bumps<br \/>it&#8217;s really very sore<\/p>\n<p>Now there&#8217;s a way to stop the ball<br \/>it isn&#8217;t difficult at all<br \/>all it takes is wisdom<br \/>I&#8217;m absolutely sure that<br \/>We can get the ball back in the box<br \/>And bind the chains<br \/>And lock the locks<br \/>no one seems to want to save the children any more<\/p>\n<p>Well that&#8217;s the way it all appears<br \/>&#8216;Cuz it&#8217;s been bouncing round for years and years<br \/>in spite of all the wisdom whiz since those wondrous days of yore<br \/>in the time they came across the box<br \/>bound up with chains and locked with locks<br \/>and labeled &#8220;Kindly do not touch, &#8220;It&#8217;s War&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>poppy love&#8230;. #4 &#8212; squaRED, originally uploaded by onkel_wart. 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