{"id":236,"date":"2007-12-07T15:20:18","date_gmt":"2007-12-07T19:20:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/2007\/12\/07\/friday-five-fun\/"},"modified":"2012-05-04T01:09:50","modified_gmt":"2012-05-04T05:09:50","slug":"friday-five-fun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/2007\/12\/07\/friday-five-fun\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday Five Fun &#8212; The Eccentric Pianist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This week&#8217;s Friday Five\u00a0asks us to use these five words in a poem or story: mustard, piano, elastic, moat, and\u00a0notorious.\u00a0 As you can see, it set me off in a rather silly direction:<\/p>\n<p>The Eccentric Pianist<br \/>\nBy Madeleine Begun Kane<\/p>\n<p>The notoriously eccentric pianist<br \/>\nPlayed electric stride piano<br \/>\nWith an elastic reach worthy of Fats Waller<br \/>\nWhile perched on the deck of his moat-surrounded castle,<br \/>\nThen dined on a meal of mustard sandwiches.<\/p>\n<p>For a post and limerick about a real (and not-nearly-so-eccentric) stride pianist, check out my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/2007\/05\/06\/night-on-the-town-judy-carmichael-stride-pianist\/\">Ode To Judy Carmichael.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>(You can find <a href=\"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/musichumor.html\">more of my music humor here.<\/a>) <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week&#8217;s Friday Five\u00a0asks us to use these five words in a poem or story: mustard, piano, elastic, moat, and\u00a0notorious.\u00a0 As you can see, it set me off in a rather silly direction: The Eccentric Pianist By Madeleine Begun Kane The notoriously eccentric pianist Played electric stride piano With an elastic reach worthy of Fats [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,24,103],"tags":[1425,1422,1322,4973,1424],"class_list":["post-236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-music-humor","category-poetry-prompts","tag-fats-waller","tag-judy-carmichael","tag-music-verse","tag-poetry-prompts","tag-stride-piano"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=236"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13367,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236\/revisions\/13367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}