{"id":2633,"date":"2011-03-24T10:17:44","date_gmt":"2011-03-24T15:17:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicomuhly.com\/?p=2633"},"modified":"2011-03-24T10:39:55","modified_gmt":"2011-03-24T15:39:55","slug":"the-mezzo-sopranos-song","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nicomuhly.com\/projects\/2011\/the-mezzo-sopranos-song\/","title":{"rendered":"The Mezzo-Soprano&#8217;s Song"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Composed for the publication of the book<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/browseinside.harpercollinschildrens.com\/index.aspx?isbn13=9780061664656\">13 Words<\/a> by Lemony Snicket and Maira Kalman. <\/p>\n<p>There once was a Bird and there once was a Dog,<br \/>\nAnd the bird was Despondent, or sad,<br \/>\nA pensive frown on her Busy beak,<br \/>\nNo matter that Cake could be had.<\/p>\n<p>The Goat suggested a Convertible drive,<br \/>\nTo purchase a cheering up Hat,<br \/>\nAt a Haberdashery with a Scarlet door,<br \/>\nAnd a Baby to sell them just that.<\/p>\n<p>The hats have Panache, of course, of course,<br \/>\nA sense of excitement and style,<br \/>\nThe Mezzo-Soprano is done with her song,<br \/>\nSo let&#8217;s all just eat for a while.<\/p>\n<p>Tra la, tra la, tra la, tra la,<br \/>\nAnd sing those tra las once more.<br \/>\nTra la, tra la, tra la, tra la,<br \/>\nTry not to get crumbs on the floor.<\/p>\n<p>-Lemony Snicket<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/nicomuhlyarchive.bandcamp.com\/stats#\">Recorded<\/a> by Eve Gigliotti and Nico Muhly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Composed for the publication of the book<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/browseinside.harpercollinschildrens.com\/index.aspx?isbn13=9780061664656\">13 Words<\/a> by Lemony Snicket and Maira Kalman. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,4,8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicomuhly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2633"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicomuhly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicomuhly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicomuhly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicomuhly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2633"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/nicomuhly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2633\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2648,"href":"https:\/\/nicomuhly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2633\/revisions\/2648"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicomuhly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicomuhly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicomuhly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}