{"id":378,"date":"2004-05-01T12:28:09","date_gmt":"2004-05-01T20:28:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/2004\/05\/01\/lord-knows-what-theyve-got-in-mind\/"},"modified":"2026-01-21T16:18:58","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T00:18:58","slug":"lord-knows-what-theyve-got-in-mind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/2004\/05\/01\/lord-knows-what-theyve-got-in-mind\/","title":{"rendered":"Lord Knows What They&#8217;ve Got In Mind"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t blog much about political issues here, and any approach is likely to be oblique.  As I surfed the web today, I happened across a Shel Silverstein poem that struck me as a perfect depiction of the past four years&#8217; trend in the White House.  Satire is a political act.  This post is my part.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" border='0' style='border:1px solid #000000; margin:2px' src=\"\/mlimages\/camelbra.jpg\"><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<table align=\"center\">\n<tr>\n<td><center><cite>They&#8217;ve Put a Brassiere On a Camel<\/cite><\/center><\/p>\n<p>They&#8217;ve put a brassiere on a camel,<br \/>\nShe wasn&#8217;t dressed proper, you know.<br \/>\nThey&#8217;ve put a brassiere on a camel,<br \/>\nSo that her humps wouldn&#8217;t show.<br \/>\nAnd they&#8217;re making other respectable plans,<br \/>\nThey&#8217;re even even insisting the pigs should wear pants,<br \/>\nThey&#8217;ll dress up the ducks if we give them the chance<br \/>\nSince they&#8217;ve put a brassiere on a camel.<\/p>\n<p>They&#8217;ve put a brassiere on a camel,<br \/>\nThey claim she&#8217;s more decent that way.<br \/>\nThey&#8217;ve put a brassiere on a camel,<br \/>\nThe camel had nothing to say.<br \/>\nThey squeezed her into it, i&#8217;ll never know how,<br \/>\nThey say that she looks more respectable now,<br \/>\nLord knows what they&#8217;ve got in mind for the cow,<br \/>\nSince they&#8217;ve put a brassiere on a camel.<\/p>\n<p>\u00c2\u00a91981 Evil Eye Music Poem and drawing by: Shel Silverstein<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t blog much about political issues here, and any approach is likely to be oblique. As I surfed the web today, I happened across a Shel Silverstein poem that struck me as a perfect depiction of the past four years&#8217; trend in the White House. Satire is a political act. This post is my [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,30,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humor","category-quotes","category-social-science"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=378"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12066,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378\/revisions\/12066"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}