{"id":88467,"date":"2021-06-26T10:11:45","date_gmt":"2021-06-26T14:11:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=88467"},"modified":"2021-06-27T22:13:44","modified_gmt":"2021-06-28T02:13:44","slug":"poem-a-tribute-to-ogden-nash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/poem-a-tribute-to-ogden-nash\/","title":{"rendered":"Poem 2 : A Tribute to Ogden Nash  &#8220;Olives&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There is something about a Martini,*<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a bikini in a glass<\/p>\n<p>Clear<\/p>\n<p>much more than a demi-tasse<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>It would be nice to have one<\/p>\n<p>While writing like a silly goose<\/p>\n<p>Crisp<\/p>\n<p>shaking my brain loose<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Yes, there is nothing like it<\/p>\n<p>Vermouth so dry<\/p>\n<p>And that juniper juice<\/p>\n<p>that makes me fly<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>It will enhance my humour<\/p>\n<p>To a notable level of sophistication<\/p>\n<p>Just like Dorothy Parker<\/p>\n<p>no doubt of the causation<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I will take my last mighty sip<\/p>\n<p>But won\u2019t be my last<\/p>\n<p>I have a forty ouncer<\/p>\n<p>yes, I\u2019m going to have a blast<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>*taken from <em>A Drink With Something In It <\/em>Ogden Nash<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is something about a Martini,* It\u2019s a bikini in a glass Clear much more than a demi-tasse &nbsp; It would be nice to have one While writing like a silly goose Crisp shaking my brain loose &nbsp; Yes, there is nothing like it Vermouth&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1447,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88467","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\/1447"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88467"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88467\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":103506,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88467\/revisions\/103506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}