{"id":1427,"date":"2025-06-28T17:31:44","date_gmt":"2025-06-28T17:31:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ctacoaches.com\/lisay\/?p=1427"},"modified":"2025-06-28T17:31:47","modified_gmt":"2025-06-28T17:31:47","slug":"puff-the-magic-dragon-post-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ctacoaches.com\/lisay\/2025\/06\/28\/puff-the-magic-dragon-post-10\/","title":{"rendered":"Puff the Magic Dragon post 10"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This was one of my favorite songs as a child. There are multiple theories about the meaning. I think my meaning is different. Here is my take:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A boy grows up and stops playing with Puff.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> Puff ceases his fearless roar his head bent in sorrow green scales fell like rain. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Without his life-long friend, Puff could not be brave. The mighty dragon sadly slipped into his cave. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The boy lost his innocence, child hood. He becomes an adult. As we grow older, we often let go of childhood things and life is dragging or dragin&#8217;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I think it is sad. I feel for Puff because that is how I am. He loses his one and only friend and now is alone. Puff needed the boy for strength. Without the boy he is no longer fearless and hides away. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is what it is to be alone. Maybe I am like Puff. I am fearless and brave with others around but alone I hide. My head is bent in sorrow. And I am dragin&#8217;. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This was one of my favorite songs as a child. There are multiple theories about the meaning. I think my meaning is different. Here is my take: A boy grows up and stops playing with Puff. Puff ceases his fearless roar his head bent in sorrow green scales fell like rain. Without his life-long friend, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ctacoaches.com\/lisay\/2025\/06\/28\/puff-the-magic-dragon-post-10\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Puff the Magic Dragon post 10<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":655,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ctacoaches.com\/lisay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1427","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ctacoaches.com\/lisay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ctacoaches.com\/lisay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ctacoaches.com\/lisay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/655"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ctacoaches.com\/lisay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1427"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ctacoaches.com\/lisay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1427\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1428,"href":"https:\/\/www.ctacoaches.com\/lisay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1427\/revisions\/1428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ctacoaches.com\/lisay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ctacoaches.com\/lisay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ctacoaches.com\/lisay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}