{"id":739,"date":"2006-04-19T06:53:40","date_gmt":"2006-04-19T11:53:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.net\/?p=739"},"modified":"2006-04-19T06:53:40","modified_gmt":"2006-04-19T11:53:40","slug":"on-suessian-poetry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=739","title":{"rendered":"On Suessian Poetry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bill-leisner.livejournal.com\/179434.html\">Bill Leisner<\/a> pointed this out&#8211;if the Bush Administration were a Doctor Suess poem, what would it be like?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>I&#8217;m the decider.<br \/>\nI pick and I choose.<br \/>\nI pick among whats.<br \/>\nAnd choose among whos.<\/p>\n<p>And as I decide<br \/>\nEach particular day<br \/>\nThe things I decide on<br \/>\nAll turn out that way.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/storyonly\/2006\/4\/18\/185016\/217\">There&#8217;s more<\/a>, a <i>lot<\/i> more.  This verse, from late in the poem, is perhaps the best:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>And Cheney and Rummy<br \/>\nAnd Condi all know<br \/>\nThat I&#8217;m the Decider &#8211;<br \/>\nThey tell me it&#8217;s so.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bill Leisner pointed this out&#8211;if the Bush Administration were a Doctor Suess poem, what would it be like? I&#8217;m the decider. I pick and I choose. I pick among whats. And choose among whos. And as I decide Each particular day The things I decide on All turn out that way. There&#8217;s more, a lot<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=739\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;On Suessian Poetry&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[75],"tags":[386,273,4108],"class_list":["post-739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writing","tag-dr-seuss","tag-george-bush","tag-politics","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/739","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=739"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/739\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}