{"id":1900,"date":"2011-05-06T17:27:48","date_gmt":"2011-05-06T17:27:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bportlibrary.org\/hc\/?p=1900"},"modified":"2011-05-06T17:27:48","modified_gmt":"2011-05-06T17:27:48","slug":"1900","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bportlibrary.org\/hc\/city-government-and-civil-service\/1900\/","title":{"rendered":"Beardsley Zoo Poem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gray pigeons and squirrels trouble<\/p>\n<p>a leafless suburban street,chattering past gas stations<\/p>\n<p>and forgotten hopes, while gray<\/p>\n<p>people slouch in gloveless poverty,<\/p>\n<p>grime-spattered jalopies clattering<\/p>\n<p>through colorless slop.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>But some children remember<\/p>\n<p>that on the pine hill, hidden<\/p>\n<p>from the gray houses live yellow<\/p>\n<p>monkeys, screaming cosmic glee<\/p>\n<p>amidst make-believe jungles,<\/p>\n<p>that down the street live rainbows<\/p>\n<p>of tigers,flamingos,and wolves.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;Eric Lehman<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gray pigeons and squirrels trouble a leafless suburban street,chattering past gas stations and forgotten hopes, while gray people slouch in gloveless poverty, grime-spattered jalopies clattering through colorless slop. &nbsp; But some children remember that on the pine hill, hidden from the gray houses live yellow monkeys, screaming cosmic glee amidst make-believe jungles, that down the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":1324,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[15,18,34,44,50],"tags":[86,92,97],"class_list":["post-1900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-city-government-and-civil-service","category-entertainment","category-institutions","category-north-end","category-parks","tag-bridgeport","tag-bridgeport-parks","tag-circus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bportlibrary.org\/hc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1900","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bportlibrary.org\/hc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bportlibrary.org\/hc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bportlibrary.org\/hc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bportlibrary.org\/hc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1900"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bportlibrary.org\/hc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1900\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bportlibrary.org\/hc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bportlibrary.org\/hc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bportlibrary.org\/hc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bportlibrary.org\/hc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}