{"id":2057,"date":"2014-04-30T06:18:03","date_gmt":"2014-04-29T19:18:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/?p=2057"},"modified":"2014-04-30T09:01:43","modified_gmt":"2014-04-29T22:01:43","slug":"napowrimo-day-30-phar-lap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/?p=2057","title":{"rendered":"NaPoWriMo Day 30: Phar Lap"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/PatriciaMullins.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2059\" alt=\"Image by Patricia Mullins,    http:\/\/museumvictoria.com.au\/about\/books-and-journals\/books\/childrens\/back-list\/phar-lap-the-wonder-horse\/\" src=\"http:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/PatriciaMullins.jpg\" width=\"230\" height=\"230\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/PatriciaMullins.jpg 230w, http:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/PatriciaMullins-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 230px) 100vw, 230px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>My final effort is my shortest. For my readers who are non-Australian &#8211; you&#8217;ll have to google the title &#8211; it&#8217;s too complicated. (U.S. &#8211; we&#8217;ve never forgiven you!)<\/p>\n<p>Suffice to say that Phar Lap&#8217;s a (deceased) racehorse whose body parts are distributed widely.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5em;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h4><\/h4>\n<h4><span style=\"font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.5em;\">Phar Lap.<\/span><\/h4>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Canberra has a heart.<\/p>\n<p>Melbourne has a hide.<\/p>\n<p>But Wellington<\/p>\n<p>has the skellington.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to everyone who has read and commented on my poems over the last 30 days &amp; special thanks to the NaPoWriMo participants, many of whom have inspired my work.<\/p>\n<h6>\u00a0<a href=\"Image by http:\/\/museumvictoria.com.au\/about\/books-and-journals\/books\/childrens\/back-list\/phar-lap-the-wonder-horse\/\">PHOTO CREDIT<\/a><\/h6>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Readers who aren&#8217;t Australian will have to google the title (- it&#8217;s too complicated. We&#8217;ve never forgiven you, U.S.!) Suffice to say that he was a race-horse whose body parts are now widely distributed&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4>Phar Lap.<\/h4>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Canberra has a heart.<\/p>\n<p>Melbourne has a hide.<\/p>\n<p>But Wellington<\/p>\n<p>has the skellington.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; My final effort is my shortest. For my readers who are non-Australian &#8211; you&#8217;ll have to google the title &#8211; it&#8217;s too complicated. (U.S. &#8211; we&#8217;ve never forgiven you!) Suffice to say that Phar Lap&#8217;s a &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/?p=2057\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2057","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2057","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2057"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2057\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2063,"href":"http:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2057\/revisions\/2063"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}