{"id":442,"date":"2010-01-18T16:48:16","date_gmt":"2010-01-19T00:48:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.abacus-es.com\/journal\/?p=442"},"modified":"2010-04-27T06:31:45","modified_gmt":"2010-04-27T14:31:45","slug":"marvins-lullaby-extended-version","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.abacus-es.com\/journal\/verse\/marvins-lullaby-extended-version\/","title":{"rendered":"Marvin&#8217;s Lullaby &#8212; extended version"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Marvin&#8217;s Lullaby<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Now the world has gone to bed<br \/>\nDarkness won&#8217;t engulf my head<br \/>\nI can see by infrared<br \/>\nHow I hate the night!<\/p>\n<p>Now I lay me down to sleep<br \/>\nTry to count electric sheep<br \/>\nSweet dream wishes, you can keep<br \/>\nhow I hate the night, &#8212; Douglas Adams<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Continuation:<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Once the dreary night is done<br \/>\nWretched day will have begun<br \/>\nI will mope at everyone<br \/>\nDay is worse than night<\/p>\n<p>Then there&#8217;ll shine the ghastly sun<br \/>\nPlease don&#8217;t talk to me of fun<br \/>\nMy fun circuits never run<br \/>\nDay is worse than night<\/p>\n<p>On your picnic I will rain<br \/>\nRarely use this massive brain<br \/>\nto think of anything but pain<br \/>\nDay is worse than night<\/p>\n<p>Oh this night is just too long<br \/>\nI&#8217;m so tired of this song<br \/>\nSurely I could not be wrong<br \/>\nNothing&#8217;s worse than night<\/p>\n<p>How I wish that I could flee<br \/>\nLess to be than not to be<br \/>\n(Oh I do loathe poetry!)<br \/>\nHow I hate the night<\/p>\n<p>Asimov&#8217;s what keeps me here<br \/>\nTrapped in matter bleak and drear<br \/>\nTo robot laws I must adhere<br \/>\nHow I hate the night!<br \/>\n&#8212; H. and K. Titchenell<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Abacus College Prep English\" href=\"http:\/\/abacus-es.com\/eie\/cpenglish.html\">Abacus College Prep English Class<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marvin&#8217;s Lullaby Now the world has gone to bed Darkness won&#8217;t engulf my head I can see by infrared How I hate the night! Now I lay me down to sleep Try to count electric sheep Sweet dream wishes, you can keep how I hate the night, &#8212; Douglas Adams Continuation: Once the dreary night [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[14,26,22,23,24,25],"class_list":["post-442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-verse","tag-add-new-tag","tag-depression","tag-douglas-adamis","tag-hitchhikers-guide-to-the-galaxy","tag-marvin","tag-paranoid-android"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.abacus-es.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/442","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.abacus-es.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.abacus-es.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.abacus-es.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.abacus-es.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=442"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.abacus-es.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/442\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":444,"href":"http:\/\/www.abacus-es.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/442\/revisions\/444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.abacus-es.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.abacus-es.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.abacus-es.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}