{"id":183289,"date":"2024-11-28T08:03:15","date_gmt":"2024-11-28T14:03:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/?p=183289"},"modified":"2024-12-02T08:40:16","modified_gmt":"2024-12-02T14:40:16","slug":"memo-to-arlo-guthrie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/memo-to-arlo-guthrie\/","title":{"rendered":"Memo to Arlo Guthrie"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The dump still closes on Thanksgiving.<\/p>\n

A thousand years ago, I persuaded my homeroom at high school #2 to nominate “Alice’s Restaurant” for our class song. It inevitably lost out to “The Impossible Dream,” which was the song every class picked during that historical period, but it’s pleasant to imagine my classmates sashaying into the auditorium singing “You can get anything you want \/ at Alice’s Restaurant, excepting Alice.”<\/p>\n

Alice Brock, who ran the restaurant in the song (which restaurant, as Guthrie notes in the song, was not actually named “Alice’s Restaurant”) died a week ago<\/a>. It sounds like she was an interesting person, though we probably would have agreed on very little.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The dump still closes on Thanksgiving. A thousand years ago, I persuaded my homeroom at high school #2 to nominate “Alice’s Restaurant” for our class song. It inevitably lost out to “The Impossible Dream,” which was the song every class picked during that historical period, but it’s pleasant to imagine my classmates sashaying into the … Continue reading “Memo to Arlo Guthrie”<\/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":[7,645],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-183289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-and-anti-culture","category-dead-people"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4xam3-LGh","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183289","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=183289"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183289\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":183375,"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183289\/revisions\/183375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}