{"id":10513,"date":"2021-01-09T10:52:26","date_gmt":"2021-01-09T10:52:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cassandravoices.com\/?p=10513"},"modified":"2021-01-09T10:52:26","modified_gmt":"2021-01-09T10:52:26","slug":"kevin-higgins-the-happy-song-of-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/casswp.eutonom.eu\/index.php\/2021\/01\/09\/kevin-higgins-the-happy-song-of-us\/","title":{"rendered":"Kevin Higgins: The Happy Song of Us"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The Happy Song of Us<\/strong><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Okay to buy your grandchild an ice-cream.<br \/>\nIllegal for them to lick it.<br \/>\nFine to bake granny<br \/>\na gleaming fruit cake,<br \/>\nas long as you only email her<br \/>\na high resolution photo of it.<br \/>\nOkay to give your son or daughter<br \/>\na bright new football.<br \/>\nIllegal for them to kick it.<br \/>\nPermissible to purchase for yourself<br \/>\na new set of golf sticks or a tennis racket.<br \/>\nIllegal to hit anything with them<br \/>\noutside the confines of your own<br \/>\ndownstairs bathroom.<\/p>\n<p>You can\u2019t have a friend around for a meal<br \/>\nunless both of you have been<br \/>\nfitted with gum shields.<br \/>\nAnd should you go for a socially distanced walk<br \/>\nwith a lover<br \/>\nbutt-plugs are now mandatory.<\/p>\n<p>Every living room is its own flat-pack factory<br \/>\nsinging the happy song of us,<br \/>\nhammering together our coffins.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Happy Song of Us\u00a0 Okay to buy your grandchild an ice-cream. Illegal for them to lick it. Fine to bake granny a gleaming fruit cake, as long as you only email her a high resolution photo of it. Okay to give your son or daughter a bright new football. Illegal for them to kick [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":161,"featured_media":10537,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[5218,5219],"class_list":["post-10513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-poetry","tag-kevin-higgins-poet","tag-kevin-higgins-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/casswp.eutonom.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10513","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/casswp.eutonom.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/casswp.eutonom.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/casswp.eutonom.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/161"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/casswp.eutonom.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10513"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/casswp.eutonom.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10513\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/casswp.eutonom.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/casswp.eutonom.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/casswp.eutonom.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/casswp.eutonom.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}