{"id":4123,"date":"2008-12-10T11:54:10","date_gmt":"2008-12-10T16:54:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=4123"},"modified":"2008-12-10T11:54:10","modified_gmt":"2008-12-10T16:54:10","slug":"happy-birfday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=4123","title":{"rendered":"Happy Birfday!"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\nAs if some little <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/blogs-and-stories\/2008-12-09\/who-allegedly-said-it\/\">corrupt<\/a> governor,<br \/>\nUpon Lake Michigan's hem,<br \/>\nWent wandering down the corridors,<br \/>\nUntil he lucky came<br \/>\nTo a <a href=\"http:\/\/tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com\/2008\/12\/illinois_attorney_generals_off.php\">vacancy of Senator<\/a>,<br \/>\nTo opportunity for gain,<br \/>\nTo willing, <a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Blotter\/ConductUnbecoming\/story?id=6431739&page=1\">eager<\/a> crowds of suitors,<br \/>\nSuch a prize to be won!<br \/>\nI say, as if this little governor<br \/>\nTo Eden wandered in--<br \/>\nWhat then? Why, nothing, only<br \/>\nYour inference therefrom!\n<\/ul>\n<p>Happy Birfday <a href=\"http:\/\/www.poetry-archive.com\/d\/as_if_some_little_arctic_flower.html\">(and apologies)<\/a> to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.infoplease.com\/birthday\/December-10\">Emily Dickinson<\/a>. And Happy Birfday, but no apologies, to Rod Blagojevich, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\/news\/local\/chi-rod-blagojevich-1209,0,7997804.story\">newly-incarcerated<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/obsidianwings.blogs.com\/obsidian_wings\/2008\/12\/blago-2016.html\">hilariously<\/a>-<a href=\"http:\/\/obsidianwings.blogs.com\/obsidian_wings\/2008\/12\/blagojevich.html\">corrupt<\/a> soon-to-be-ex-governor of Illinois.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As if some little corrupt governor, Upon Lake Michigan's hem, Went wandering down the corridors, Until he lucky came To a vacancy of Senator, To opportunity for gain, To willing, eager crowds of suitors, Such a prize to be won! I say, as if this little governor To Eden wandered in-- What then? Why, nothing, [&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-4123","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\/4123","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=4123"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4123\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}