{"id":224,"date":"2005-04-07T09:01:00","date_gmt":"2005-04-07T09:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/2005\/04\/this-month-half-price\/"},"modified":"2005-04-07T09:01:00","modified_gmt":"2005-04-07T09:01:00","slug":"this-month-half-price","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/2005\/04\/this-month-half-price\/","title":{"rendered":"This Month Half Price"},"content":{"rendered":"

April has been drip-drip-dripping its showers upon me. In the big streets of old London I have been so enjoying the rapid confusions of our mad island weather that I quite forget to yearn for warmer climes, a place where aching cold bones are eased, marijuana grows wild, and clothing is a decoration. I have a mickey-mouse umbrella, which isn’t to say it is a lesser piece of apparatus. It springs out and unfolds like a black rainflower, and as it joins the parade of eye-removing walking shelters, the mouse motif shines out boldly. I rather like the idea of hiding underneath a naive fascist emblem, it makes me feel insurgent and alive.<\/p>\n

I have been so enjoying my study of lyrics over the past 3 weeks. One lyric has led to another so smoothly and inevitably, the texts criss-crossing and referring backwards and forwards like the rails coming into and exiting Clapham Junction, which for a long time held the honour of being the world’s busiest railway station, but which is now sadly superceded by a more modern and no-doubt safer Asian railway. I had more lyrics in mind, artists whose writing I wanted to quote and elucidate upon and use to cast a light or throw a moody shadow upon various episodes of my own track. But, something has occurred which means that I cannot continue in this theme, which as the observant among you will have deduced runs from mid-month to mid-month. I must cut it short and move swiftly on to the next destination.<\/p>\n

All because of this man.<\/p>\n

He is evil. He is clever. He is hungry. He wants to ruin my life, and those around me. More at this time I cannot say, except that I cannot stand by and watch a protest against the war from good-hearted Labour supporters, plus voter apathy, let the most vindictive man in politics become leader of this country. I know it’s going to be a close run thing. I cannot stand idly by. Every red socialist bloodcell in my body has been animated. We must act collectively, immediately, or we will lose everything we have gained.<\/p>\n

So, Ladies, Gentlemen, and those of other genders and stranger persuasions, those of the night and those of the day, this month I will mostly be writing about politics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

April has been drip-drip-dripping its showers upon me. In the big streets of old London I have been so enjoying the rapid confusions of our mad island weather that I quite forget to yearn for warmer climes, a place where aching cold bones are eased, marijuana grows wild, and clothing is a decoration. I have […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":126,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[780],"class_list":["post-224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-funky-original","tag-funky-original"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/126"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=224"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}