{"id":636,"date":"2017-01-10T12:54:28","date_gmt":"2017-01-10T12:54:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jonelkon.com\/?p=636"},"modified":"2017-01-10T12:54:28","modified_gmt":"2017-01-10T12:54:28","slug":"2017-blues-cheer-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jonelkon.com\/jnlk\/2017-blues-cheer-up\/","title":{"rendered":"2017 blues? Cheer up."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Ok, the Trumpets play,<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The brexit signs gleam and the prophets of doom<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Seem serene. The gloom<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Descends as the snow gathers. Friends!<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Would you rather bore<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The world with becoming<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Furled in the mire of despairing?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Or go down the road singing?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>No! I say, we who are about to die,<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Play! In the gathering dark<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Laugh! Ignite the spark of comedy!<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Satire speaks from the heart. Depart!<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Ye portents of doom. Fart! In the faces of stupidity\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Blow their abandoned logic to eternity!<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Sing! This is Saturnalia, this is the Feast of Fools, <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>For us, this is defeat.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8230;.and when they have destroyed us all, our treat<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>As the last light begins to go<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>remains &#8220;I Told You So.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ok, the Trumpets play, The brexit signs gleam and the prophets of doom Seem serene. The gloom Descends as the snow gathers. Friends! Would you rather bore The world with becoming Furled in the mire of despairing? Or go down&#8230;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":638,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonelkon.com\/jnlk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/636","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonelkon.com\/jnlk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonelkon.com\/jnlk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonelkon.com\/jnlk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonelkon.com\/jnlk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=636"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/jonelkon.com\/jnlk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/636\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":639,"href":"https:\/\/jonelkon.com\/jnlk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/636\/revisions\/639"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonelkon.com\/jnlk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonelkon.com\/jnlk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonelkon.com\/jnlk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonelkon.com\/jnlk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}