{"id":78,"date":"2004-09-11T13:53:19","date_gmt":"2004-09-11T20:53:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/blog\/?p=76"},"modified":"2004-09-11T13:53:19","modified_gmt":"2004-09-11T20:53:19","slug":"harmless-sentimental","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/2004\/09\/11\/harmless-sentimental\/","title":{"rendered":"Harmless sentimental"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"storycontent\">\n<p>It&rsquo;s amazing how a kind word can make you cry<br \/> where barbs of scorn and anger fail;<br \/> and here I was at work with nowhere to hide,<br \/> doing my best not to well-up and blubber.<br \/> But thank you for that; it makes me happier than I can say.<\/p>\n<p>I&rsquo;m looking into a radical template change,<br \/> so things may be a little unstable here for awhile.<br \/> If so, now you know why.<\/p>\n<p>This is the completed swing poem,<br \/> which I did <strong>not<\/strong> read at the poetry reading<br \/> because I&rsquo;m not entirely happy with it;<br \/> but there you go.  The &ldquo;Kas&rdquo; journal is now filled.<br \/> Now I just have to find Kas.<\/p>\n<p>&ndash; Like a Jitterbug &ndash;<\/p>\n<p><em>Swing word schemes like a jitterbug,<br \/> if that&rsquo;s all there is my friend<br \/> then let&rsquo;s cut a rug.<br \/> Legs loose like spaghetti,<br \/> feet like Andretti,<br \/> come feel the music<br \/> let&rsquo;s rock the beat steady.<br \/> Let me cop a dance,<br \/> it&rsquo;s my last chance<br \/> to get by with a smile.<br \/> A spin and a dip,<br \/> I&rsquo;ve flipped my last chip<br \/> to a turning wheel;<br \/> whip around on a heel<br \/> and stop to feel! [pause]<br \/> Crazy like a dervish,<br \/> nervous, palms sweaty in a Charlston,<br \/> stop me if you&rsquo;ve heard this.<br \/> Tight curves on a ballroom floor,<br \/> I&rsquo;m floored, my eyes and limbs adore.<br \/> We tip-toe through a slow dance,<br \/> my last chance<br \/> to get by with a smile.<br \/> I flip my last chip,<br \/> dip;<br \/> smile.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Like I said, I don&rsquo;t really like it.<br \/> But I&rsquo;ve gone and subjected you to it anyway;<br \/> I&rsquo;m atrociously evil.  Rar.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&rsquo;s amazing how a kind word can make you cry where barbs of scorn and anger fail; and here I was at work with nowhere to hide, doing my best not to well-up and blubber. But thank you for that; it makes me happier than I can say. I&rsquo;m looking into a radical template change, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,17,19],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}