{"id":156,"date":"2006-02-03T00:30:43","date_gmt":"2006-02-03T00:30:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tuppenceworth.ie\/blog\/index.php\/2006\/02\/03\/im-still-standing\/"},"modified":"2006-02-03T00:31:54","modified_gmt":"2006-02-03T00:31:54","slug":"im-still-standing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tuppenceworth.ie\/blog\/2006\/02\/03\/im-still-standing\/","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;m Still Standing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tuppenceworth.ie\/columns\/keisha_list.html\">Kiesha Poiro<\/a> has a new piece on Tuppenceworth. <\/p>\n<p>It is an open letter to Michael Stipe, who has sorted out all her life&#8217;s problems in a single song. And assisted her in buying a pretzel.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Please don&#8217;t misunderstand, Mr. Stipe. I&#8217;m not going home to play your record backwards or look for clues in the album art. This is simply a message of thanks.   And thanks to you, Mike (Can I call you Mike?), the clouds of confusion have slid apart, beaming light at my forehead. It was in the Jamba Juice, surrounded by angelic singing and a fat lady in stirrup pants, that enlightenment washed over me.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tuppenceworth.ie\/biglife\/still_standing.html\">I&#8217;m Still Standing<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kiesha Poiro has a new piece on Tuppenceworth. It is an open letter to Michael Stipe, who has sorted out all her life&#8217;s problems in a single song. And assisted her in buying a pretzel. Please don&#8217;t misunderstand, Mr. Stipe. I&#8217;m not going home to play your record backwards or look for clues in the album art. This is simply a message of thanks. And thanks to you, Mike (Can I call you Mike?), the clouds of confusion have slid apart, beaming light at my forehead. It was in the Jamba Juice, surrounded by angelic singing and a fat lady in stirrup pants, that enlightenment washed over me. I&#8217;m Still Standing","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-tuppenceworthie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tuppenceworth.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tuppenceworth.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tuppenceworth.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tuppenceworth.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tuppenceworth.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=156"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tuppenceworth.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tuppenceworth.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tuppenceworth.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tuppenceworth.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}