{"id":1087,"date":"2005-02-03T10:20:00","date_gmt":"2005-02-03T10:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/delascabezas.com\/blog\/index.php\/2019\/02\/20\/thus-begins-my-career-as-a-drunken-poet-songwriter\/"},"modified":"2019-02-20T21:56:44","modified_gmt":"2019-02-20T21:56:44","slug":"thus-begins-my-career-as-a-drunken-poet-songwriter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/delascabezas.com\/blog\/index.php\/2005\/02\/03\/thus-begins-my-career-as-a-drunken-poet-songwriter\/","title":{"rendered":"thus begins my career as a drunken poet\/songwriter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It was too late to be drinking<br \/>\nOr too early not to.<br \/>\nI don\u2019t quite remember,<br \/>\nWhy I ended up there anyhow.<br \/>\nThe memories are in there<br \/>\nBut hiding, behind the barstools.<\/p>\n<p>A Manhattan without a cherry<br \/>\nIs really just a Woodlawn.<br \/>\nSweet vermouth, I love you so;<br \/>\nWhy you hate me, I\u2019ll never know.<br \/>\nGlasses with stems can never be highball,<br \/>\nNo matter how hard they try.<\/p>\n<p>There was heartbreak and hysteria<br \/>\nFootball future telling politics;<br \/>\nThe State of the Union and<br \/>\nThe state of MLB, and NHL.<br \/>\nIt allways came back to three options.<br \/>\nRegardless of those three:<\/p>\n<p>A Manhattan without a cherry<br \/>\nIs really just a Woodlawn.<br \/>\nSweet vermouth, I love you so,<br \/>\nWhy you hate me, I\u2019ll never know.<br \/>\nBars were meant to be smoky inside;<br \/>\nIt helps obscure drunkenness.<\/p>\n<p>The jukebox was on random.<br \/>\nIt played the soundtrack<br \/>\nTo one of the circles of hell.<br \/>\nAnd there was a padded skeleton<br \/>\nIn pink sequins, using her breasts<br \/>\nTo pay her bartab.<\/p>\n<p>And it was too late when I left<br \/>\nOr it was too early.<br \/>\nTo late to be drinking,<br \/>\nOr too early not to.<br \/>\nBecause a Manhattan without a cherry,<br \/>\nIs really just a Woodlawn.<br \/>\nA Woodlawn &#8217;till dawn.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was too late to be drinking Or too early not to. I don\u2019t quite remember, Why I ended up there anyhow. The memories are<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"chat","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[82],"class_list":["post-1087","post","type-post","status-publish","format-chat","hentry","tag-lethargic","post_format-post-format-chat"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/delascabezas.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1087","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/delascabezas.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/delascabezas.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/delascabezas.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/delascabezas.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1087"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/delascabezas.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1087\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3660,"href":"https:\/\/delascabezas.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1087\/revisions\/3660"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/delascabezas.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/delascabezas.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/delascabezas.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}