{"id":38270,"date":"2017-08-05T20:06:06","date_gmt":"2017-08-06T00:06:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=38270"},"modified":"2017-08-05T20:06:06","modified_gmt":"2017-08-06T00:06:06","slug":"the-jig-was-always-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/the-jig-was-always-up\/","title":{"rendered":"The jig was always up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fiddle music<br \/>\nsomeone playing a jig<br \/>\nor dancing one<br \/>\nI think of my grandfather<\/p>\n<p>immigrant Gramps,<br \/>\nNorwegian as they came<br \/>\nwould dance a jig<br \/>\nof celebration;<br \/>\nin front of the TV following<br \/>\na home team victory<br \/>\nin the aisles of the ballpark<br \/>\nafter a home run<br \/>\nupon winning a game of<br \/>\nwhist, or cribbage<\/p>\n<p>when bowling a strike<\/p>\n<p>always sans music,<br \/>\nthough he would<br \/>\nsometimes whistle<br \/>\nGramps would simply jig<br \/>\nwhen the mood struck &#8211;<br \/>\nmusicless, endearing,<br \/>\ngleeful, dance-of-one<\/p>\n<p>arms, fists, elbows,<br \/>\npumping by his side,<br \/>\nhis feet shuffling, then<br \/>\nbig finish \u2013<br \/>\nrunning one hand over his<br \/>\nhead, smoothing out<br \/>\nwhat remained of his<br \/>\nsilver, Vitalis slicked hair<\/p>\n<p>I have tried a little jig<br \/>\nfrom time to time with little<br \/>\npositive reaction<br \/>\nI lack the moves, the look &#8211;<br \/>\nthe suave panache<\/p>\n<p>But I got the DNA<br \/>\nso there is always hope<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>\u2013 Mark L. Lucker<\/em><em><br \/>\n<\/em><em>\u00a9 2017<\/em><br \/>\n<em><a href=\"http:\/\/lrd.to\/sxh9jntSbd\">http:\/\/lrd.to\/sxh9jntSbd<\/a><\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fiddle music someone playing a jig or dancing one I think of my grandfather immigrant Gramps, Norwegian as they came would dance a jig of celebration; in front of the TV following a home team victory in the aisles of the ballpark after a home&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":694,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,13,441],"tags":[2500,2501,810],"class_list":["post-38270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-miscellaneous","category-poetry-prompt-responses","tag-2017-prompt-11","tag-irish-jig-prompt","tag-prompt-11"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38270","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\/694"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38270"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38270\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38309,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38270\/revisions\/38309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}