{"id":13604,"date":"2015-06-14T06:03:03","date_gmt":"2015-06-14T10:03:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=13604"},"modified":"2015-06-14T06:03:03","modified_gmt":"2015-06-14T10:03:03","slug":"hour-21-6-30-7-30pm-30-dirty-gertie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2015\/06\/hour-21-6-30-7-30pm-30-dirty-gertie\/","title":{"rendered":"(Hour 21) 6.30-7.30pm \u2014 #30 \u201cDirty Gertie\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Incomplete, more drafting necessary; but no time available. A shower &amp; clean teeth helped, but already the steam is fading.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>#30<br \/>\n<strong>appropriation<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>16 feet of very nude female<br \/>\nbronze ; on her toeballs ;<br \/>\narching on her own ball of earth<br \/>\nsword aloft ; a colossus in V ;<br \/>\ngrand scale commemorative art ;<br \/>\ncelebrating war ; shouting victory ;<br \/>\ntriumph ; black silhouettes the sky<br \/>\nsomehow towering above<br \/>\nthe surrounding scrapers.<\/p>\n<p>locals have a colloquial ;<br \/>\nas Dubliners do\u00a0for<br \/>\n\u201cthe Floozy in the Jacuzzi\u201d<br \/>\n&amp; \u201cthe prick with the stick\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>hence the symbol\u00a0of German<br \/>\ndefeat, Paris\u2019s protection ;<br \/>\nbecomes \u201cthe Wicked Woman\u201d ;<br \/>\n&amp; \u201cDirty Gertie\u201d ;<br \/>\nall stemming from a time<br \/>\nwhen bus passengers asked<br \/>\nto disembark at the stop<br \/>\nnext to \u201cthe Naked Lady\u201d<br \/>\nwhen buying tickets &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/garethroi.files.wordpress.com\/2015\/06\/bingo_card_-_bw4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-728 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/garethroi.files.wordpress.com\/2015\/06\/bingo_card_-_bw4.jpg?w=182\" alt=\"Bingo_card_-_B&amp;W\" width=\"182\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>#74. Oh dear.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Incomplete, more drafting necessary; but no time available. A shower &amp; clean teeth helped, but already the steam is fading. #30 appropriation 16 feet of very nude female bronze ; on her toeballs ; arching on her own ball of earth sword aloft ; a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":360,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13604","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/360"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13604"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13604\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13608,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13604\/revisions\/13608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}