{"id":2043,"date":"2007-12-13T00:10:22","date_gmt":"2007-12-13T07:10:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/2007\/12\/13\/love-song-to-a-fruitcake\/"},"modified":"2007-12-13T00:10:22","modified_gmt":"2007-12-13T07:10:22","slug":"love-song-to-a-fruitcake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/2043","title":{"rendered":"Love Song to a Fruitcake"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>O Fruitcake! How I long to set you free,<br \/>\nAnd see you where you surely ought to be,<br \/>\nUpon my plate where I may gaze at you,<br \/>\nAnd share my love for you, Fruitcake, anew.<\/p>\n<p>Constrained within your wrappings, there you lay,<br \/>\nThose bits of red and green&#8230; just what <u>are<\/u>\u00c2\u00a0they?<br \/>\nI&#8217;m sure you know, but how am I to say<br \/>\nSweet words of love\u00c2\u00a0and taste of you\u00c2\u00a0today?<\/p>\n<p>I hear their voices. Hark! They come too soon!<br \/>\nAnd you, my dear, must sense the piper&#8217;s tune.<br \/>\nAlas! My love for you they do not share,<br \/>\nTo\u00c2\u00a0taste of Christmas fruitcake they won&#8217;t dare.<\/p>\n<p>The die is cast; my spirits cannot lift.<br \/>\nYour fate, my darling Fruitcake, is <u>re-gift<\/u>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p align=\"left\">Written for the <a title=\"Advent Calendar of Christmas Memories\" href=\"http:\/\/destinationaustinfamily.blogspot.com\/2007\/12\/advent-calendar-of-christmas-memories.html\"><font color=\"#990000\">Advent Calendar of Christmas Memories<\/font><\/a> &#8211; Day 14 .\u00a0<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Copyright \u00a9 2007 by Stephen J. Danko<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>O Fruitcake, how I long to set you free,<br \/>\nAnd see you where you surely ought to be, <a href=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/2043\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[27],"tags":[161],"class_list":["post-2043","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-journal","tag-advent-calendar"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pyBfX-wX","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2043","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2043"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2043\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}