{"id":3021,"date":"2011-03-07T05:17:57","date_gmt":"2011-03-07T10:17:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/?p=3021"},"modified":"2011-03-07T05:17:57","modified_gmt":"2011-03-07T10:17:57","slug":"lady-godiva-with-apologies-to-the-beatles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/?p=3021","title":{"rendered":"Lady Godiva (with apologies to the Beatles)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>OK, to prepare for this read up on <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lady_Godiva\">the legend of Lady Godiva<\/a>, and then read the lyrics of the Beatles&#8217; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lyricsfreak.com\/b\/beatles\/lady+madonna_20014569.html\">Lady Madonna<\/a>.  You might want to take the three minutes or so to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=VfthrizXKOM\">watch it being performed<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Now sing this to yourself:<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<pre>\r\nLady Godiva, peasants at your feet\r\nSuddenly you wonder how they make ends meet\r\nHusband takes the money when they pay the rent\r\nDid you think that money was heaven sent?\r\n\r\nBegging him to give the poor their stores back\r\nSunday has you creeping like a nun\r\nHe'll do it if you streak the town on horseback\r\nSee how they run!\r\n\r\nThomas the peeper, gazing at your breast\r\nWonders if he'll manage to see the rest.\r\nPeeping through a knothole, blinded by delight\r\nMonday's when he traded that to lose his sight.\r\n\r\nTuesday afternoon is neverending\r\nWednesday morning's income didn't come\r\nThursday night your stocking needed mending\r\nSee how they run!\r\n\r\nLady Godiva, servants at your feet\r\nSuddenly you wonder how you'll make ends meet.\r\n<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OK, to prepare for this read up on the legend of Lady Godiva, and then read the lyrics of the Beatles&#8217; Lady Madonna. You might want to take the three minutes or so to watch it being performed. Now sing this to yourself:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3021","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3021","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3021"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3021\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3027,"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3021\/revisions\/3027"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}