{"id":5540,"date":"2024-01-19T12:18:21","date_gmt":"2024-01-19T17:18:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/?p=5540"},"modified":"2024-01-19T12:18:21","modified_gmt":"2024-01-19T17:18:21","slug":"emperor-norton-day-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/emperor-norton-day-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Emperor Norton Day &#8211; 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to fellow Clamper <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bebowhite.com\/\">Bebo White<\/a> for reading my tribute to <a href=\"https:\/\/sfmuseum.org\/hist1\/norton.html\">Emperor Norton<\/a> at the annual gathering at His gravesite in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.atlasobscura.com\/places\/emperor-nortons-grave\">Woodlawn Cemetery, San Francisco, California (really in Colma)<\/a> with fellow members of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/E_Clampus_Vitus\">the Yerba Buena #1 unit of E Vitus Clampus<\/a> this past January 7.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n<strong>To Emperor Norton In Heaven<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>We gather here in Black and Red<br \/>\nTo say that Norton is not dead,<\/p>\n<p>No! He looks down from overhead<br \/>\nWearing his uniform and wings.<\/p>\n<p>Let the jug band begin to sing!<\/p>\n<p>Let the fife and washboard celebrate<br \/>\nThe rule of Norton, The Greatest Great!<\/p>\n<p>Let the notions of Norton become<br \/>\nShouted loud as the loudest bass drum.<\/p>\n<p>Let his ideas become as clear<br \/>\nAs a bottle of Anchor Steam Beer.<\/p>\n<p>Let us show our love and commemorate<br \/>\nPlaces holy and degenerate.<\/p>\n<p>Let the Bridges, at last, wear his name.<br \/>\nLet the Ferry House do the same.<\/p>\n<p>Let his decrees and his visions<br \/>\nBecome the core of our mission.<\/p>\n<p>Let us be like him exactly<br \/>\nLet us yell SATISFACTORY!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to fellow Clamper Bebo White for reading my tribute to Emperor Norton at the annual gathering at His gravesite in the Woodlawn Cemetery, San Francisco, California (really in Colma) with fellow members of the Yerba Buena #1 unit of E Vitus Clampus this past January 7. To Emperor Norton In Heaven We gather here [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5540","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5540"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5540\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5541,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5540\/revisions\/5541"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}