{"id":9089,"date":"2017-02-14T09:21:40","date_gmt":"2017-02-14T14:21:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=9089"},"modified":"2017-02-14T09:21:40","modified_gmt":"2017-02-14T14:21:40","slug":"happy-valentines-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=9089","title":{"rendered":"Happy Valentine’s Day"},"content":{"rendered":"

My love for you is like a slough
\nof water flowing\u00a0out
\nthat soaks the town of Kilkey Down
\nwhose folks pray for a drought.<\/p>\n

That one’s for you, dear reader, but here’s another bound to enliven a lover’s heart. From Ogden Nash.<\/p>\n

A flea and a fly in a flue
\nWere imprisoned, so what could they do?
\nSaid the fly, “let us flee!”
\n“Let us fly!” said the flea.
\nSo they flew through a flaw in the flue.<\/p>\n

Isn’t that sweet? Here’s more on Ogden Nash in The Hindu.<\/a><\/p>\n

Mimi Matthews has a few creative verses for telling someone who may or may not be interested in you to seek other pastures<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Don\u2019t credit the advertisements
\nIn paper or in serial,
\nYou cannot manufacture charms
\nWith ugly raw material.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My love for you is like a slough of water flowing\u00a0out that soaks the town of Kilkey Down whose folks pray for a drought. That one’s for you, dear reader, but here’s another bound to enliven a lover’s heart. From Ogden Nash. A flea and a fly in a flue Were imprisoned, so what could … Continue reading Happy Valentine’s Day<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[8,11],"tags":[2076],"class_list":["post-9089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-goofing","category-poetry","tag-ogden-nash"],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9089","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9089"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9089\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}