{"id":1803,"date":"2009-04-30T09:32:52","date_gmt":"2009-04-30T09:32:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/?p=1803"},"modified":"2009-04-30T09:32:52","modified_gmt":"2009-04-30T09:32:52","slug":"300914-puppetry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/archives\/1803","title":{"rendered":"30|09:14 Puppetry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just down the street from the Staatsbibliothek<br \/>\nA group of street performers in black jumpsuits and white facemasks<br \/>\nAre using a full-body puppet made of yellow and orange styrofoam<br \/>\nTo deliver a form of exquisite harassment upon a poor tourist<br \/>\nJust trying to determine what exactly it is<br \/>\nThat sets a Starbucks in Berlin apart from one in Denver.<br \/>\nThe puppet bobs and weaves, waves and thrusts its hips,<br \/>\nBeholden to a strange determinism at the end of long spindly poles<br \/>\nWielded by the merry pranksters, their identities concealed<br \/>\nAnd thus rendered safe to act out their frustration<br \/>\nWith this invasion of foreign currency, of foreign coffee,<br \/>\n<i>Americans go home,<\/i> they seem to be thinking,<br \/>\nWhile the puppet itself thinks <i>I&#8217;m sorry, I&#8217;m sorry, it&#8217;s not me.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just down the street from the Staatsbibliothek A group of street performers in black jumpsuits and white facemasks Are using a full-body puppet made of yellow and orange styrofoam To deliver a form of exquisite harassment upon a poor tourist Just trying to determine what exactly it is That sets a Starbucks in Berlin apart [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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":""},"categories":[28,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1803","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry","category-writing"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4e5QR-t5","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1803","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1803"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1803\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}