{"id":2744,"date":"2012-07-11T21:30:05","date_gmt":"2012-07-11T20:30:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2014\/2012\/07\/11\/the-excellent-football-poets-website-led-us-to\/"},"modified":"2016-05-02T15:16:54","modified_gmt":"2016-05-02T14:16:54","slug":"the-excellent-football-poets-website-led-us-to","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2014\/2012\/07\/11\/the-excellent-football-poets-website-led-us-to\/","title":{"rendered":"The excellent football poets website led us to &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The excellent football poets website led us to this poem by P Maguire. Link below if you fancy further exploration. Enjoy&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>The Enduring Spirit Of Football<\/p>\n<p>Stop the world for a moment<br \/>\nDrag down the boundaries and fences<br \/>\nPull up the stone barriers and rip up the flags<br \/>\nDispense with slogans and spin<br \/>\nBin the logos and neon spanglers<br \/>\nPull down the billboards and adverts<br \/>\nStep off the soapboxes and political agendas<br \/>\nThrow away the &#8220;isms&#8221;<br \/>\nAnd just find a football, a space<br \/>\nAnd play.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a9 P Maguire<\/p>\n<p>ParryMaguire (2004)<\/p>\n<div class=\"fbfpi_link\">\n<div class=\"fbfpi_text\">\n<h4><a href=\"http:\/\/www.footballpoets.org\/p.asp?Id=7799\" target=\"_self\" title=\"&copy; footballpoets.org - Football Poets - P Maguire\">Football Poets &#8211; P Maguire<\/a><\/h4>\n<p><small>footballpoets.org<\/small><\/p>\n<p>Football Poems by P Maguire. A celebration of the beautiful game.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The excellent football poets website led us to this poem by P Maguire. Link below if you fancy further exploration. Enjoy&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>The Enduring Spirit Of Football<\/p>\n<p>Stop the world for a moment<br \/>\nDrag down the boundaries and fences<br \/>\nPull up the stone barriers and rip up the flags<br \/>\nDispense with slogans and spin<br \/>\nBin the logos and neon spanglers<br \/>\nPull down the billboards and adverts<br \/>\nStep off the soapboxes and political agendas<br \/>\nThrow away the &#8220;isms&#8221;<br \/>\nAnd just find a football, a space<br \/>\nAnd play.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a9 P Maguire<\/p>\n<p>ParryMaguire (2004)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2744","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-facebook"],"geo":null,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2744","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2744"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2744\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2745,"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2744\/revisions\/2745"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}