{"id":1189,"date":"2007-06-27T12:58:50","date_gmt":"2007-06-27T17:58:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ironwil.net\/writings\/2007\/06\/27\/i-play-superman\/"},"modified":"2007-06-27T12:58:50","modified_gmt":"2007-06-27T17:58:50","slug":"i-play-superman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ironwil.net\/cs\/2007\/06\/i-play-superman\/","title":{"rendered":"I play Superman . . ."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I play Superman to so many people,<br \/>\nworld&#8217;s greatest Ring Master w\/out a circus in town &#8211;<br \/>\nyou always look right through me<br \/>\nwhen I&#8217;m playing the Clown.<\/p>\n<p>I have my bag of tricks and you know them all,<br \/>\nwatched me perfect them<br \/>\nstill I wear my cape so often, I can&#8217;t find my glasses or my tie.<\/p>\n<p>It is a sad little lie,<br \/>\nand . . .<br \/>\nstill I play Superman to so many people &#8211;<\/p>\n<p>You help me find my glasses and<br \/>\nstraighten my wind blown hair,<br \/>\nfix my tie for me &#8211;<br \/>\nyou help me be the boy they raised;<br \/>\nmove past the facade and still be brave.<\/p>\n<p>Yet, I still play Superman to so many people &#8211;<br \/>\nyou always smiled at me<br \/>\nand helped me put my feet back on the ground.<\/p>\n<p>When I go back the Cape comes out<br \/>\nand I play the Big Blue Boy Scout.<\/p>\n<p align=\"right\">wil becker<br \/>\n2001.10.07\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-nc-sa\/3.0\/us\/\" rel=\"license\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/images\/public\/somerights20.png\" alt=\"Creative Commons License\" style=\"border-width:0;\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I play Superman to so many people, world&#8217;s greatest Ring Master w\/out a circus in town &#8211; you always look right through me when I&#8217;m playing the Clown. I have my bag of tricks and you know them all, watched me perfect them still I wear my cape so often, I can&#8217;t find my glasses [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[191],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wrote"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ironwil.net\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1189","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ironwil.net\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ironwil.net\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ironwil.net\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ironwil.net\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1189"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.ironwil.net\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1189\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ironwil.net\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ironwil.net\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ironwil.net\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}