{"id":66,"date":"2004-10-04T16:49:47","date_gmt":"2004-10-04T20:49:47","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=66"},"modified":"2004-10-04T16:49:47","modified_gmt":"2004-10-04T20:49:47","slug":"edson-coffee-apes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/edson-coffee-apes\/","title":{"rendered":"Edson, Coffee, Apes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sunsite.wits.ac.za\/holistic\/\">A friend in South Africa<\/a> reminds me why I love the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.webdelsol.com\/LITARTS\/edson\/\">poet\/fableist\/word-cartoonist Russell Edson<\/a> by referring to this poem:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/plagiarist.com\/poetry\/2531\/\">Ape and Coffee<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Some coffee had gotten on a man&#8217;s ape. The man said,<br \/>\nanimal did you get on my coffee?<\/p>\n<p>No no, whistled the ape, the coffee got on me.<\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;re sure you didn&#8217;t spill on my coffee? said the man.<\/p>\n<p>Do I look like a liquid? peeped the ape.<\/p>\n<p>Well you sure don&#8217;t look human, said the man.<\/p>\n<p>But that doesn&#8217;t make me a fluid, twittered the ape.<\/p>\n<p>Well I don&#8217; know what the hell you are, so just stop it,<br \/>\ncried the man.<\/p>\n<p>I was just sitting here reading the newspaper when you<br \/>\nsplashed coffee all over me, piped the ape.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t care if you are a liquid, you just better stop<br \/>\nsplashing on things, cried the man.<\/p>\n<p>Do I look fluid to you? Take a good look, hooted the ape.<\/p>\n<p>If you don&#8217;t stop I&#8217;ll put you in a cup, screamed the man.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not a fluid, screeched the ape.<\/p>\n<p>Stop it, stop it, screamed the man, you are frightening me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A friend in South Africa reminds me why I love the poet\/fableist\/word-cartoonist Russell Edson by referring to this poem: Ape and Coffee Some coffee had gotten on a man&#8217;s ape. The man said, animal did you get on my coffee? No no, whistled the ape, the coffee got on me. You&#8217;re sure you didn&#8217;t spill [&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-66","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\/66","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=66"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}