{"id":905,"date":"2004-10-27T11:31:57","date_gmt":"2004-10-27T18:31:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/2004\/10\/signs_and_premonitions\/"},"modified":"2004-10-27T11:31:57","modified_gmt":"2004-10-27T18:31:57","slug":"signs_and_premonitions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/2004\/10\/signs_and_premonitions.html","title":{"rendered":"SIGNS AND PREMONITIONS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><P>The Beantown Boys have taken a <A class=inline\nhref=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/sports\/baseball\/redsox\/articles\/2004\/10\/27\/one_win_to_go_for_the\n_crown\/\" target='new\"'><B><FONT color=#003399>commanding lead<\/FONT><\/B><\/A> in<br \/>\nthe World Series. And, praise be, the Red Sox nation stretches across the sea <A class=inline\nhref=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/news\/globe\/editorial_opinion\/letters\/articles\/2004\/10\/26\/red_sox_f\nans_across_the_pond\/\" target='new\"'><B><FONT color=#003399>to Liverpool,<br \/>\nEngland<\/FONT><\/B><\/A>, even across the globe <A class=inline\nhref=\"http:\/\/www.canoe.ca\/NewsStand\/EdmontonSun\/Sports\/2004\/10\/26\/685480.html\"\ntarget='new\"'><STRONG><FONT color=#003399>to Tashkent,<br \/>\nUzbekistan<\/B><\/FONT><\/STRONG><\/A><STRONG><FONT\ncolor=#003399>.<\/FONT><\/STRONG> A sweep could come <A\nhref=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/sports\/baseball\/redsox\/articles\/2004\/10\/27\/its_a_championship_hea\nvy_wait\/\" class=inline target=new\"><B><FONT color=#003399>tonight in St.<br \/>\nLouis<\/FONT><\/B><\/A>, right in the heart of Republican-leaning Missouri, and wouldn&#8217;t that be<br \/>\nKerry lovely? Which has set <A class=inline\nhref=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/archives20040401.shtml#76400 \"\ntarget='new\"'><STRONG><FONT color=#003399>our poet<\/B><\/FONT><\/STRONG><\/A><br \/>\nonce again to singing:<\/P><br \/>\n<P><STRONG>THE EX-WHITE HOUSE RESIDENT<\/STRONG><\/P><br \/>\n<P>George Walker Bush, a Texas gent,<BR>Somehow came and went,<BR>Not so much a<br \/>\npresident<BR>As an embarrassment.<\/P><br \/>\n<P><STRONG>&#8211;Leon Frelich<\/STRONG><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Beantown Boys have taken a commanding lead in the World Series. And, praise be, the Red Sox nation stretches across the sea to Liverpool, England, even across the globe to Tashkent, Uzbekistan. A sweep could come<\/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-905","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-eB","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/905","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=905"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/905\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}