{"id":1717,"date":"2015-04-13T18:22:47","date_gmt":"2015-04-13T18:22:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomwarner.co.uk\/?p=1717"},"modified":"2015-04-19T16:40:25","modified_gmt":"2015-04-19T16:40:25","slug":"the-patron-saint-of-cowards-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomwarner.co.uk\/?p=1717","title":{"rendered":"The Patron Saint of Cowards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright wp-image-1718 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/tomwarner.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Saint-Michael-the-Archangel-201x300.jpg\" alt=\"Saint Michael the Archangel\" width=\"208\" height=\"300\" \/>Although there is no Patron Saint of Cowards,<br \/>\nin the end we get the saint that we deserve.<br \/>\nSo here\u2019s your one-time cage-fighter, drug-up<br \/>\nfrom the south side of that stinking river.<br \/>\nNot the saint you might have prayed for,<br \/>\nwith womanly hips and stained-glass eyes,<br \/>\nwho\u2019d draw you in and soothe your brow.<br \/>\nNo. Better bring a witness; send the cops.<br \/>\nHave them drop by on my fixed abode<br \/>\n<em>(but we&#8217;re not giving any names)<\/em><br \/>\nand say you\u2019d never shoot someone in the back.<br \/>\nRats can tell when they\u2019re in with weasels,<br \/>\nso forget the child and the father and the mother:<br \/>\nyours is the saint who cups your bald head<br \/>\nin one hand and beats you with the other.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"twttr_follow\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TomWarnerPoet\" onclick=\"_gaq.push(['_trackEvent', 'outbound-article', 'https:\/\/twitter.com\/TomWarnerPoet', 'Follow me']);\" class=\"twitter-follow-button\" data-show-count=\"true\">Follow me<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<script>!function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\";fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document,\"script\",\"twitter-wjs\");<\/script>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Although there is no Patron Saint of Cowards, in the end we get the saint that we deserve. So here\u2019s your one-time cage-fighter, drug-up from the south side of that stinking river. Not the saint you might have prayed for, with womanly hips and stained-glass eyes, who\u2019d draw you in and soothe your brow. No. [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomwarner.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1717"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomwarner.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomwarner.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomwarner.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomwarner.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1717"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/tomwarner.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1717\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1724,"href":"https:\/\/tomwarner.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1717\/revisions\/1724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomwarner.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomwarner.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomwarner.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}