{"id":753,"date":"2007-12-18T23:29:56","date_gmt":"2007-12-19T04:29:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/2007\/12\/18\/a-nod-to-james-thurber\/"},"modified":"2007-12-19T00:41:37","modified_gmt":"2007-12-19T05:41:37","slug":"a-nod-to-james-thurber","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/2007\/12\/18\/a-nod-to-james-thurber\/","title":{"rendered":"A Nod to James Thurber"},"content":{"rendered":"

Christmas is upon us
\nonce again. It is not
\nastonishing; we were
\nwarned. Sing “Ho”.<\/p>\n

It hovers over us
\nbug-eyed, gobbling
\ncandies and villagers,
\nindiscriminately. Sing “Ho”.<\/p>\n

Bring out the fruit
\ncakes of appeasement
\nthe tinsel of contrition
\nand the booze. Sing “Ho”.<\/p>\n

[Thanks to Ernie Spiller for the idea.]\u00a0<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Christmas is upon us once again. It is not astonishing; we were warned. Sing “Ho”. It hovers over us bug-eyed, gobbling candies and villagers, indiscriminately. Sing “Ho”. Bring out the fruit cakes of appeasement the tinsel of contrition and the … Continue reading →<\/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":[7,3],"tags":[135,133],"class_list":["post-753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mild-mannered-opinion","category-poetry","tag-christmas","tag-satire"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/753","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=753"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/753\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}