{"id":1644,"date":"2003-12-23T12:18:32","date_gmt":"2003-12-23T17:18:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/?p=389"},"modified":"2003-12-23T12:18:32","modified_gmt":"2003-12-23T17:18:32","slug":"elvis-haiku","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/?p=1644","title":{"rendered":"Elvis Haiku?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Totally random thought&#8230;  Would Elvis have been such a success if he had written haiku?<\/p>\n<p>My shoes are blue suede<br \/>\nAnd you are just a hound-dog<br \/>\nDo not step on them.<\/p>\n<p>[updated &#8211; These things are like popcorn!  I can&#8217;t seem to stop writing them&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>Long live Las Vegas<br \/>\nMy soul burns with the bright lights<br \/>\nAnd money departs<\/p>\n<p>Party in the jail<br \/>\nThe band plays much too loudly<br \/>\nJailbirds sing, knocked out<\/p>\n<p>My baby has left<br \/>\nSo I must rent a new room<br \/>\nDown on Lonely Street<\/p>\n<p>Christmas without you<br \/>\nRed and green, but mostly blue<br \/>\nThe tree, and my heart<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s now or never<br \/>\nTomorrow will be too late<br \/>\nMy love will not wait<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Totally random thought&#8230; Would Elvis have been such a success if he had written haiku? My shoes are blue suede And you are just a hound-dog Do not step on them. [updated &#8211; These things are like popcorn! I can&#8217;t &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/?p=1644\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[24],"class_list":["post-1644","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-personal-blather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1644","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1644"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1644\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}