{"id":494,"date":"2007-02-26T14:07:50","date_gmt":"2007-02-26T19:07:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/2007\/02\/26\/mc\/"},"modified":"2007-02-28T18:24:03","modified_gmt":"2007-02-28T23:24:03","slug":"mc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/2007\/02\/26\/mc\/","title":{"rendered":"MC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sure it was a put up job:<br \/>\nall those long-gowned<br \/>\nbeauties suddenly in the front row,<br \/>\nand Ellen, all business<br \/>\n<em>They didn&#8217;t tell me this was part of the job <\/em><br \/>\nvacuuming expertly<br \/>\nbut impatiently<br \/>\n<em>That&#8217;s a lot of skirt, Penelope<\/em><br \/>\naround their feet \u2014<br \/>\nnot exactly washing them,<br \/>\nbut not so far off either \u2014<br \/>\na forgiveness of beauty<br \/>\na ritual that every day<br \/>\nwe humble ourselves to<\/p>\n<p>and so we wallow<br \/>\nin the hallowed love<br \/>\nand rejoice in this<br \/>\nimpossible reconcilliation<br \/>\ntestosterone and estrogen<br \/>\nthis cuddly commentator<br \/>\nthe next Will Rogers<br \/>\nnot by aphorism<br \/>\nbut by example<\/p>\n<p>and as she is<br \/>\nwe wait<br \/>\nnot for a lariat<br \/>\nbut a hokey<br \/>\nwonderful dance.<\/p>\n<p><em>[See my other blog, Platinum River, for a background article, <a href=\"http:\/\/platinum-river.blogspot.com\/2007\/02\/ellen-degeneres.html\" title=\"Click to see the article.\">&#8220;Ellen Degeneres&#8221;<\/a>, <\/em><em>and photos on this poem.]<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sure it was a put up job: all those long-gowned beauties suddenly in the front row, and Ellen, all business They didn&#8217;t tell me this was part of the job vacuuming expertly but impatiently That&#8217;s a lot of skirt, Penelope &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/2007\/02\/26\/mc\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=494"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}