{"id":3939,"date":"2022-08-04T07:23:00","date_gmt":"2022-08-04T11:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/?p=3939"},"modified":"2022-07-31T12:24:14","modified_gmt":"2022-07-31T16:24:14","slug":"a-poem-for-a-thursday-188","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/2022\/08\/04\/a-poem-for-a-thursday-188\/","title":{"rendered":"A Poem for a Thursday #188"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Sharon Bryan was born in 1943 in Utah. She is the author of several poetry collections, including Sharp Stars <\/em>which won the Isabella Stewart Gardiner Poetry Award. She has been a visiting professor at Dartmouth College and the University of Connecticut. She has also been the poet-in-residence at The Frost Place in New Hampshire. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Never better, mad as a hatter,\nright as rain, might and main,\nhanky panky, hot toddy,\n\nhoity-toity, cold shoulder,\nbowled over, rolling in clover,\nlow blow, no soap, hope\n\nagainst hope, pay the piper,\nliar liar pants on fire,\nhigh and dry, shoo-fly pie,\n\nfiddle-faddle, fit as a fiddle,\nsultan of swat, muskrat\nramble, fat and sassy,\n\nflimflam, happy as a clam,\ncat's pajamas, bee's knees,\npeas in a pod, pleased as punch,\n\npretty as a picture, nothing much,\nlift the latch, double Dutch,\nhelter-skelter, hurdy-gurdy,\n\nearly bird, feathered friend,\ndumb cluck, buck up,\nshilly-shally, willy-nilly,\n\nroly-poly, holy moly,\nloose lips sink ships,\nspitting image, nip in the air,\n\nhale and hearty, part and parcel,\nupsy-daisy, lazy days,\nmaybe baby, up to snuff,\n\nflibbertigibbet, honky-tonk,\nspic and span, handyman,\ncool as a cucumber, blue moon,\n\nhigh as a kite, night and noon,\nlove me or leave me, seventh heaven, \nup and about, over and out. \n\nSweater Weather: A Love Song to Language\nSharon Bryan\n<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Sharon Bryan was born in 1943 in Utah. She is the author of several poetry collections, including Sharp Stars which won the Isabella Stewart Gardiner Poetry Award. She has been a visiting professor at Dartmouth College and the University of Connecticut. She has also been the poet-in-residence at The Frost Place in New Hampshire. Never better, mad as a hatter, right as rain, might and main, hanky panky, hot toddy, hoity-toity, cold shoulder, bowled over, rolling in clover, low blow, no soap, hope against hope, pay the piper, liar liar pants on fire, high and dry, shoo-fly pie, fiddle-faddle, fit as a fiddle, sultan of swat, muskrat ramble, fat and sassy, flimflam, happy as a clam, cat’s pajamas, bee’s knees, peas in a pod, pleased as punch, pretty as a picture, nothing much, lift the latch, double Dutch, helter-skelter, hurdy-gurdy, early bird, feathered friend, dumb cluck, buck up, shilly-shally, willy-nilly, roly-poly, holy moly, loose lips sink ships, spitting image, nip in the air, hale and hearty, part and parcel, upsy-daisy, lazy days, maybe baby, up to snuff, flibbertigibbet, honky-tonk, spic and span, handyman, cool as a cucumber, blue moon, high as a kite, night and noon, love me or leave me, seventh heaven, up and about, over and out. Sweater Weather: A Love Song to Language Sharon Bryan<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3940,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-poem-for-a-thursday"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3939","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3939"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3939\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3941,"href":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3939\/revisions\/3941"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3940"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}