{"id":876,"date":"2005-12-12T15:44:04","date_gmt":"2005-12-12T15:44:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cleek.lunarpages.com\/blogs\/?p=876"},"modified":"2005-12-12T15:44:04","modified_gmt":"2005-12-12T15:44:04","slug":"because-i-could-not-stop-for-gilligan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=876","title":{"rendered":"Because I could not stop for Gilligan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/ticklishideas.blogspot.com\/2005\/12\/caroling.html\">Ticklish Ideas<\/a>:<\/p>\n<ul>\nStart your humming:<\/p>\n<ul>\nJust sit right back and you'll hear a tale,<br \/>\na tale of a fateful trip.<br \/>\nThat started from this tropic port,<br \/>\naboard this tiny ship.<\/p>\n<p>The mate was a mighty sailin' man,<br \/>\nthe skipper brave and sure.<br \/>\nFive passengers set sail that day,<br \/>\nfor a three hour tour,<br \/>\na three hour tour\n<\/ul>\n<p>Now, switch lyrics but keep the same tune:<\/p>\n<ul>\nAmazing Grace, how sweet the sound<br \/>\nThat saved a wretch like me<br \/>\nI once was lost but now am found,<br \/>\nWas blind but now I see<br \/>\nWas blind but now I see<\/p>\n<p>T'was Grace that taught...<br \/>\nmy heart to fear.<br \/>\nAnd Grace, my fears relieved.<br \/>\nHow precious did that Grace appear...<br \/>\nthe hour I first believed.\n<\/ul>\n<p>It works on hymn-influenced verse too, see:<\/p>\n<ul>\nBecause I could not stop for Death\u00e2\u20ac\u201d<br \/>\nHe kindly stopped for me\u00e2\u20ac\u201d<br \/>\nThe Carriage held but just Ourselves\u00e2\u20ac\u201d<br \/>\nAnd Immortality.<br \/>\nWe slowly drove\u00e2\u20ac\u201dHe knew no haste<br \/>\nAnd I had put away<br \/>\nMy labor and my leisure too,<br \/>\nFor His Civility\u00e2\u20ac\u201d<br \/>\n-Emily Dickenson\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Oh how I love me some Gilligan's Island.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>via Ticklish Ideas: Start your humming: Just sit right back and you'll hear a tale, a tale of a fateful trip. That started from this tropic port, aboard this tiny ship. The mate was a mighty sailin' man, the skipper brave and sure. Five passengers set sail that day, for a three hour tour, a [&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-876","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\/876","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=876"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/876\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}