{"id":1005,"date":"2005-01-14T10:50:17","date_gmt":"2005-01-14T18:50:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/2005\/01\/the_friday_follies\/"},"modified":"2005-01-14T10:50:17","modified_gmt":"2005-01-14T18:50:17","slug":"the_friday_follies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/2005\/01\/the_friday_follies.html","title":{"rendered":"THE FRIDAY FOLLIES"},"content":{"rendered":"

Verse from Straight Up’s poet laureate<\/FONT><\/B><\/A> Leon Freilich
\ncomes in handy at the end of the week. In re: “Some Now
\nQuestion Cost of Inauguration.”<\/FONT><\/B><\/A>
\n

<\/P>
\n

AFTER THE BALL IS OVER<\/B><\/P>
\n

What will be left after the waltzing
And Bush has had his inauguration?
When
\nforty million has been splashed,
What will be the mood of the nation?
<\/P>
\n

With war in Iraq draining five billion
Each month, and the certainty of
\nslashes
Looming in Social Security
What will be left but the taste of ashes?
<\/P>
\n

Alas, the friends of Incurious George,
Ogling the mounting spoils of war,
Have no
\ncomplaint and no regret —
They have the keys to the candy store.<\/I><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Verse from Straight Up’s poet laureate Leon Freilich comes in handy at the end of the week. In re: “Some Now Question Cost of Inauguration.” AFTER THE BALL IS OVER What will be left after the waltzingAnd Bush has had his inauguration?When forty million has been splashed,What will be the mood of the nation? With […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1005","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-main","7":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbvgEs-gd","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1005","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1005"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1005\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}