{"id":3125,"date":"2016-08-28T02:20:45","date_gmt":"2016-08-28T01:20:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.writingsinrhyme.com\/?p=3125"},"modified":"2016-08-28T02:20:45","modified_gmt":"2016-08-28T01:20:45","slug":"the-fourth-funnel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/the-fourth-funnel\/","title":{"rendered":"The Fourth Funnel"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_2693\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2693\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2693\" alt=\"Titanic, with only three funnels\" src=\"http:\/\/www.writingsinrhyme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Titanic-with-only-three-funnels.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"310\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2693\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Titanic, with only three funnels<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Proud men of Belfast built her<br \/>\nRivets driven blow by blow<br \/>\nBuilt with inner savage pride<br \/>\nWorkers today seldom know&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>And from the sky, swinging crane<br \/>\nThe fourth funnel lowers down<br \/>\nAs if the ship was a queen<br \/>\nAnd the funnel was a crown.<\/p>\n<p>She wasn&#8217;t to last on the wave<br \/>\nTragic, it was, her story<br \/>\nBut in the shipyard of dreams<br \/>\nAll she held, it was glory.<\/p>\n<p>And each rivet was driven<br \/>\nNot just by workers for wage<br \/>\nBut with love as if actors<br \/>\nAnd the shipyard was a stage!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Proud men of Belfast built her Rivets driven blow by blow Built with inner savage pride Workers today seldom know&#8230; And from the sky, swinging crane The fourth funnel lowers down As if the ship was a queen And the funnel was a crown. She wasn&#8217;t to last on the &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[54,256,81,1094,90],"tags":[319,3194,3192,3193,3191],"class_list":["post-3125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ireland","category-irish-heritage","category-travel-poems","category-ulster-scots","category-walking-verses","tag-belfast","tag-belfast-shipyards","tag-building-of-the-titanic","tag-haarland-and-woulff","tag-titanic","column","twocol"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7EI4f-Op","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4413,"url":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/willie-rimes-builds-a-boat\/","url_meta":{"origin":3125,"position":0},"title":"Willie Rimes Builds a Boat","author":"Tom\u00e1s \u00d3 C\u00e1rthaigh","date":"28th October 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"We havnt heard from Willie Rimes in a while... as expected, he has been up to no good... in a self built boat! 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