{"id":11606,"date":"2011-02-27T00:05:13","date_gmt":"2011-02-27T05:05:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=11606"},"modified":"2011-02-27T00:05:13","modified_gmt":"2011-02-27T05:05:13","slug":"i-sing-of-olaf-glad-and-big","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=11606","title":{"rendered":"i sing of Olaf glad and big"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>apropos of nothing: a favorite of mine, from e.e. cummings:<\/p>\n<p>i sing of Olaf glad and big<br \/>\nwhose warmest heart recoiled at war:<br \/>\na conscientious object-or<\/p>\n<p>his wellbelov\u00e9d colonel(trig<br \/>\nwestpointer most succinctly bred)<br \/>\ntook erring Olaf soon in hand;<br \/>\nbut--though an host of overjoyed<br \/>\nnoncoms(first knocking on the head<br \/>\nhim)do through icy waters roll<br \/>\nthat helplessness which others stroke<br \/>\nwith brushes recently employed<br \/>\nanent this muddy toiletbowl,<br \/>\nwhile kindred intellects evoke<br \/>\nallegiance per blunt instruments--<br \/>\nOlaf(being to all intents<br \/>\na corpse and wanting any rag<br \/>\nupon what God unto him gave)<br \/>\nresponds,without getting annoyed<br \/>\n\"I will not kiss your fucking flag\"<\/p>\n<p>straightway the silver bird looked grave<br \/>\n(departing hurriedly to shave)<\/p>\n<p>but--though all kinds of officers<br \/>\n(a yearning nation's blueeyed pride)<br \/>\ntheir passive prey did kick and curse<br \/>\nuntil for wear their clarion<br \/>\nvoices and boots were much the worse,<br \/>\nand egged the firstclassprivates on<br \/>\nhis rectum wickedly to tease<br \/>\nby means of skilfully applied<br \/>\nbayonets roasted hot with heat--<br \/>\nOlaf(upon what were once knees)<br \/>\ndoes almost ceaselessly repeat<br \/>\n\"there is some shit I will not eat\"<\/p>\n<p>our president,being of which<br \/>\nassertions duly notified<br \/>\nthrew the yellowsonofabitch<br \/>\ninto a dungeon,where he died<\/p>\n<p>Christ(of His mercy infinite)<br \/>\ni pray to see;and Olaf,too<\/p>\n<p>preponderatingly because<br \/>\nunless statistics lie he was<br \/>\nmore brave than me:more blond than you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>apropos of nothing: a favorite of mine, from e.e. cummings: i sing of Olaf glad and big whose warmest heart recoiled at war: a conscientious object-or his wellbelov\u00e9d colonel(trig westpointer most succinctly bred) took erring Olaf soon in hand; but--though an host of overjoyed noncoms(first knocking on the head him)do through icy waters roll that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11606","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11606"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11606\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}