{"id":49289,"date":"2021-12-15T12:11:52","date_gmt":"2021-12-15T17:11:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/?p=49289"},"modified":"2021-12-15T12:12:27","modified_gmt":"2021-12-15T17:12:27","slug":"news-as-muse-david-erdos-a-penis-for-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/2021\/12\/news-as-muse-david-erdos-a-penis-for-christmas.html","title":{"rendered":"<font size=\"+2\"><em>News as Muse<\/em><\/font> <br><strong>David Erdos: &#8216;A Penis for Christmas&#8217;<\/strong>"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>In the grand tradition of Heathcote Williams&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/2021\/03\/will-oprah-winfrey-pick-up-where-he-left-off-heathcote-williams-on-the-british-monarchy.html\">verse polemics<\/a>, the poet David Erdos rounds on British Prime Minister Boris Johnson and the latest scandal of his corrupt administration:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image is-style-default\"><figure class=\"alignleft size-full is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/news\/daily-comment\/boris-johnsons-christmas-from-hell\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"49288\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/boris-johnson-penis-party-bdr365enh\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/boris-johnson-PENIS-PARTY-bdr365enh-.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"365,260\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"boris johnson PENIS PARTY (bdr)(365)enh\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/boris-johnson-PENIS-PARTY-bdr365enh--300x214.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/boris-johnson-PENIS-PARTY-bdr365enh-.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/boris-johnson-PENIS-PARTY-bdr365enh-.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-49288\" width=\"270\" height=\"193\" title=\"Photo by Adrian Dennis \/ AFP \/ Getty.\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/boris-johnson-PENIS-PARTY-bdr365enh-.jpg 365w, https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/boris-johnson-PENIS-PARTY-bdr365enh--300x214.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 270px) 100vw, 270px\" \/><\/a><figcaption><strong>PLUS: <\/strong><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/news\/daily-comment\/boris-johnsons-christmas-from-hell\">&#8216;Boris Johnson&#8217;s Christmas from Hell&#8217; in The New Yorker<\/a><\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse\"><em>\"The predicted Ice Age did not come \u2014\nalthough it was on the Daily Mirror website for God's sake \u2014\nand while reactions to news can't be sacred,\nas there is no gospel truth to these times,\nthe chill still persists when considering the scourge\nof B. Johnson, a former euphemism for penis . . .\"<\/em>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=nD-28aq58AA&amp;t=28s\">\nListen here.<\/a><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the grand tradition of Heathcote Williams\u2019s verse polemics, the poet David Erdos rounds on British Prime Minister Boris Johnson and the latest scandal of his corrupt administration.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":49288,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[18,4,20,23,17],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-49289","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-literature","8":"category-main","9":"category-media","10":"category-news","11":"category-political-culture","12":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/boris-johnson-PENIS-PARTY-bdr365enh-.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbvgEs-cOZ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49289","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49289"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49289\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49327,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49289\/revisions\/49327"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}