{"id":6075,"date":"2020-05-26T06:01:04","date_gmt":"2020-05-26T13:01:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/?p=6075"},"modified":"2020-05-27T06:51:34","modified_gmt":"2020-05-27T13:51:34","slug":"panning-during-the-pandemic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/poetry\/panning-during-the-pandemic\/","title":{"rendered":"Panning During the Pandemic"},"content":{"rendered":"<!-- wp:themify-builder\/canvas \/-->\n\n\n<p>An old timer pans for gold during the pandemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He pans a coastal stream that carries flakes<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>down the watershed to gleam at the ocean&#8217;s edge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A gold miner at dawn on the beach!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He&#8217;s got the gold bug!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Wishing for a strike!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hope of hope to get into the money<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>and start singing:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>We&#8217;re in the money\/ we&#8217;re in the money<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The classic show tune from <em>The Gold Diggers<\/em>,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>sung by Ginger Rodgers with her golden smirk,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>in the Depression, 1933, FDR Year 1,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>a sunrise of a year in America.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Freedom from fear<\/em> FDR promised.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He delivered.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Look what our President today promises<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>while he rakes in the gold<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>to decorate his boudoir.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He delivered as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An old timer pans for gold during the pandemic. He pans a coastal stream that carries flakes down the watershed to gleam at the ocean&#8217;s edge. A gold miner at dawn on the beach! He&#8217;s got the gold bug! Wishing for a strike! Hope of hope to get into the money and start singing: We&#8217;re [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6076,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1090,51,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6075","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-corona-virus-thoughts","category-nsp-correspondents","category-poetry","has-post-title","has-post-date","has-post-category","has-post-tag","has-post-comment","has-post-author",""],"builder_content":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6075","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6075"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6075\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6083,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6075\/revisions\/6083"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6076"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}