{"id":618,"date":"2002-09-18T21:56:23","date_gmt":"2002-09-19T04:56:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/jed\/2002\/09\/18\/618.html"},"modified":"2002-09-18T21:56:23","modified_gmt":"2002-09-19T04:56:23","slug":"more-of-gods-critters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/2002\/09\/18\/more-of-gods-critters\/","title":{"rendered":"More of God&#8217;s critters"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>My favorite <a href=\"http:\/\/www.acousticmusic.com\/staines\/index.htm\">Bill Staines<\/a> songs are \"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.niehs.nih.gov\/kids\/lyrics\/critters.htm\">All God's Critters (Got a Place in the Choir)<\/a>\" and (Nanci Griffith's version of) \"Roseville Fair.\"<\/p>\n<p>But sometimes my brain just starts making up nonsense that scans to a particular tune.  The other morning, walking to the workshop house in the mist\/drizzle of Rockaway Beach, this started going through my head:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Listen to the mockingbird a-singin' his song;<br>\nThe platypus quacks as he sings along;<br>\nThe wombat sings with the kangaroo,<br>\nAnd the right whale just goes moo.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Don't ask me, I just work here.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My favorite Bill Staines songs are &#8220;All God&#8217;s Critters (Got a Place in the Choir)&#8221; and (Nanci Griffith&#8217;s version of)&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/618","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=618"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/618\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}