{"id":10673,"date":"2007-10-23T17:51:02","date_gmt":"2007-10-23T21:51:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/vardibidian\/2007\/10\/23\/10673.html"},"modified":"2018-03-12T16:57:00","modified_gmt":"2018-03-12T21:57:00","slug":"all-together-now-on-five","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/2007\/10\/23\/all-together-now-on-five\/","title":{"rendered":"All together now, on five"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

From Jon Carroll’s inimitable column this morning<\/a>: “I think everything should have a chorus. Wouldn't the presidential debates be better with a chorus? ”<\/p>\n\n

Yes, yes they would. He’s speaking specifically of an opera-style chorus. I was thinking more operetta style chorus, like a Gilbert-and-Sullivan thing:\n\n

Rudy Giuliani: I brought down crime more than anyone in this country—maybe in the history of this country—while I was mayor of New York City.
CHORUS: When he was mayor of New York City, when he was mayor of New York City, when he was mayor, when he was mayor, when he was mayor … of New York City!<\/blockquote>\n\n

On the other hand, maybe a Greek Tragedy Chorus would be more appropriate:\n\n

CHORUS: O voice of Gd sweet-toned, with what intent
Cam’st thou from Arkansas, where the razorbacks grunt,
To this District, of high estate?
Fainting for fear, we quiver in suspense
(Hear us, O healer! Paul of Texas, hear!),
In brooding dread, what doom, of present growth,
Or as the months roll on, thy hand will work;
Tell me, O Voice divine, thou child of golden Hope!<\/blockquote>\n\n

It’s true, you know, everything is better with a chorus.\n\n

Tolerabimus quod tolerare debemus<\/I>,
-Vardibidian.\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In Which Your Humble Blogger (and his sisters and his cousins and his aunts) takes the rhetorical ball and runs with it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[204,206],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10673","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-rhetoric"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10673","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10673"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10673\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18138,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10673\/revisions\/18138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}