{"id":13585,"date":"2011-02-04T01:17:40","date_gmt":"2011-02-04T09:17:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/neology\/2011\/02\/04\/hammerstein.html"},"modified":"2011-02-04T01:17:40","modified_gmt":"2011-02-04T09:17:40","slug":"hammerstein","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/2011\/02\/04\/hammerstein\/","title":{"rendered":"Hammerstein"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Was listening to the radio earlier (KALW, the Bay Area's lesser-known NPR station); there was a show about 20th-century American music, and tonight's episode covered Oscar Hammerstein. So they played several Hammerstein-lyrics songs I hadn't heard before. I was tickled by this line:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<div class=\"stanza\">\n<p>I'd like to bask in<\/p>\n<p>Your fond caressin'<\/p>\n<p>You do the askin'<\/p>\n<p>I'll do the yessin'<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>I see that that line was quoted in a book about musicals as an example of how awful some of Hammerstein's lyrics are, but I found it cute and charming and entertaining.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Was listening to the radio earlier (KALW, the Bay Area&#8217;s lesser-known NPR station); there was a show about 20th-century American music, and tonight&#8217;s episode covered Oscar Hammerstein. So they played&#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":[53],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lyrics"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13585","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13585"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13585\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}