{"id":2579,"date":"1997-05-12T00:00:00","date_gmt":"1997-05-12T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/1997\/05\/12\/spiro-comments\/"},"modified":"2022-12-23T15:40:11","modified_gmt":"2022-12-23T23:40:11","slug":"spiro-comments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/1997\/05\/12\/spiro-comments\/","title":{"rendered":"s: Beware of Greeks Bearing Poems (Reader Comments and Addenda)"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p>\"Wight\" provides another political double dactyl:<\/p>\r\n<blockquote>\r\n<p class=\"stanza\">Higgledy Piggledy<br \/>\r\nAdalai Stevenson<br \/>\r\nlost it to Dwight and be-<br \/>\r\ncame quite bereft.<br \/><br \/>\r\nHe had his platform and<br \/>\r\nuncompromisingly<br \/>\r\nput himself just too damn<br \/>\r\nfar to the left.<\/p>\r\n<\/blockquote>\r\n<p>This has a couple of minor scansion problems, like the extra syllable in \"Adlai,\" but I thought it made a nice companion piece to the Agnew stuff.<\/p>\r\n<hr \/>\r\n<p>(Last updated: 10 January 1999)<\/p>\r\n<hr \/>\r\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/1997\/05\/11\/spiro\/\">Back to column s<\/a><\/p>\r\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-double-dactyls","category-1-lowercase-1"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2579","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=2579"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2579\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3180,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2579\/revisions\/3180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}