{"id":1793,"date":"2021-12-07T23:00:20","date_gmt":"2021-12-07T23:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vikingraider.com\/?page_id=1793"},"modified":"2021-12-12T19:13:48","modified_gmt":"2021-12-12T19:13:48","slug":"beyond-puff","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/vikingraider.com\/?page_id=1793","title":{"rendered":"Beyond Puff"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h5>A Sequel to Puff the Magic Dragon&#8230;<br><br>Staring out the window,<br>Time has taken it&#8217;s toll.<br>The old man wonders far and wide<br>And reflects upon his Soul. <br><br>He was just an old man<br>Staring at the Sea.<br>Waiting for the Sun to set<br>And to see his family.<br><br>And then it really happened,<br>That Dragon that he knew,<br>at the other end of all this life,<br>And the ship they sailed on too.<br><br>He said he came to get him,<br>and take him far away.<br>Where all the strings and sealing wax<br>were waiting for this day.<br><br>Yes Dragons live forever,<br>and so do little boys.<br>In the mind of this old man,<br>With strings and gifts and toys.<br><br>And so they both sailed away,<br>For us no more to see.<br>Headed for that Autumn Mist<br>And the Land called Honah Lee.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n<h5 id=\"block-81007e10-9266-4203-b725-77446483b070\">\u00a9 2021 by John F. Bergin, All Rights Reserved<br>December, 2021<\/h5>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link has-white-color has-vivid-red-background-color has-text-color has-background\" href=\"https:\/\/vikingraider.com\/?page_id=1814\"><strong>Back to Zorp Songs<\/strong><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Sequel to Puff the Magic Dragon&#8230; Staring out the window,Time has taken it&#8217;s toll.The old man wonders far and wideAnd reflects upon his Soul. He was just an old manStaring at the Sea.Waiting for the Sun to setAnd to see his family. And then it really happened,That Dragon that he knew,at the other end &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/vikingraider.com\/?page_id=1793\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Beyond Puff&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1802,"parent":1814,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vikingraider.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1793"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vikingraider.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vikingraider.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vikingraider.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vikingraider.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1793"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/vikingraider.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1793\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1905,"href":"https:\/\/vikingraider.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1793\/revisions\/1905"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vikingraider.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1814"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vikingraider.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1802"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vikingraider.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}