{"id":18359,"date":"2017-05-02T13:20:20","date_gmt":"2017-05-02T13:20:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/idea.membrane.com\/songwriter\/?p=18359"},"modified":"2017-05-02T13:20:20","modified_gmt":"2017-05-02T13:20:20","slug":"like-a-simile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/2017\/05\/02\/like-a-simile\/","title":{"rendered":"Like A Simile"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LYRICS<br \/>\nIf life is like a bowl of lemons<br \/>\nDo you grow tired of sour sermons<br \/>\nIf someone hands you a cherry<br \/>\nDoes the amount of pits every vary<br \/>\nIt seems to me the simile<br \/>\nCompares to life too simply<br \/>\nIf the world is but a stage<br \/>\nDoes it depend upon your age<br \/>\nAre you caught up in the rat race<br \/>\nGrowing older&#8230; try to keep pace<br \/>\nIt seems to me the analogy<br \/>\nCompares to life too simply<br \/>\nSame old story: ring around the rosie<br \/>\nWhen I die, fill my pockets with posies<br \/>\nLife is but a dream, we sing the round<br \/>\nAshes to ashes, we all fall down<br \/>\nIt seems there must be more<br \/>\nThan life as a metaphor<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/Gay-Church\/music\/Part-2\/DR0000_4612-Like-A-Simile.mp3\">Like A Simile.mp3<\/a><\/p>\n<p>ABOUT THE SONG<br \/>\nStyle: Folk Rock<br \/>\nChords: C Am \/ Em Am<br \/>\nRecording: live 1-track digital stereo<\/p>\n<p>Vocals, Guitar<\/p>\n<p>Written at the corner of Gay and Church Streets in Chester County, West Chester, PA.<\/p>\n<p>From the album <a href=\"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/Gay-Church\/\"><strong><em>Gay Church<\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LYRICS If life is like a bowl of lemons Do you grow tired of sour sermons If someone hands you a cherry Does the amount of pits every vary It seems to me the simile Compares to life too simply If the world is but a stage Does it depend upon your age Are you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6,9,3454,14],"tags":[148,3456,312,3507,3473,3455,487,539,556,613,615,781,782,2270,3457],"class_list":["post-18359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chords","category-daniel","category-gay-church","category-lyrics","tag-chester-county","tag-church-street","tag-free","tag-gay-church","tag-gay-church-band","tag-gay-street","tag-live","tag-mp3","tag-music","tag-original","tag-pa","tag-songs","tag-songwriter","tag-street-musicians","tag-west-chester-pennsylvania"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18359","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18359"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18359\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18362,"href":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18359\/revisions\/18362"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}