{"id":113423,"date":"2020-12-22T08:47:40","date_gmt":"2020-12-22T14:47:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/?p=113423"},"modified":"2020-12-22T08:47:40","modified_gmt":"2020-12-22T14:47:40","slug":"wordplay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wordplay\/","title":{"rendered":"Wordplay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Winter thus far has been mild here, with little snow and ice. Nevertheless, I&#8217;m in the mood for an old favorite by the lunatic from Idaho.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Winter is icummen in,<br \/>\nLhude sing Goddamm.<br \/>\nRaineth drop and staineth slop,<br \/>\nAnd how the wind doth ramm!<br \/>\nSing: Goddamm.<\/p>\n<p>Skiddeth bus and sloppeth us,<br \/>\nAn ague hath my ham.<br \/>\nFreezeth river, turneth liver,<br \/>\nDamn you, sing: Goddamm.<\/p>\n<p>Goddamm, Goddamm, &#8217;tis why I am, Goddamm,<br \/>\nSo &#8216;gainst the winter&#8217;s balm.<\/p>\n<p>Sing goddamm, damm, sing Goddamm.<br \/>\nSing goddamm, sing goddamm, DAMM.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I particularly like how Pound exploits the rhymes to make the pleasant word &#8220;balm&#8221; sound like an obscenity.<\/p>\n<p>Another nice word that sounds like an obscenity to me nowadays, for other reasons: &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/amywelborn.wordpress.com\/2020\/12\/20\/all-are-maybe-welcome\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">safe<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Winter thus far has been mild here, with little snow and ice. Nevertheless, I&#8217;m in the mood for an old favorite by the lunatic from Idaho. Winter is icummen in, Lhude sing Goddamm. Raineth drop and staineth slop, And how the wind doth ramm! Sing: Goddamm. Skiddeth bus and sloppeth us, An ague hath my &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wordplay\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Wordplay&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-113423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-decline-and-fall","category-words"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s4xam3-wordplay","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113423","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113423"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113423\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":113426,"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113423\/revisions\/113426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}