{"id":101705,"date":"2012-12-24T01:26:09","date_gmt":"2012-12-24T06:26:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/101705\/poem-say-it-isnt-so-norm\/"},"modified":"2012-12-24T01:26:09","modified_gmt":"2012-12-24T06:26:09","slug":"poem-say-it-isnt-so-norm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/101705\/poem-say-it-isnt-so-norm\/","title":{"rendered":"POEM: Say It Isn&#8217;t So, Norm!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><font face=\"arial, helvetica, sans-serif\" size=\"4\"><em>This was written for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.friendburst.com\/blog\/101697\/its-a-rockwell-christmas-simple-sunday\/\">CPC Simple Sunday Picture challenge<\/a>.  The art is by &#8211; well it&#8217;s obvious isn&#8217;t it?<\/em><\/font><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/s136.photobucket.com\/albums\/q183\/scotorum\/CPCChallenges\/?action=view&amp;current=DeckTheHalls.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/i136.photobucket.com\/albums\/q183\/scotorum\/CPCChallenges\/DeckTheHalls.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Photobucket\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><font face=\"arial, helvetica, sans-serif\" size=\"5\"><strong>SAY IT ISN&#8217;T SO, NORM!<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><font face=\"arial, helvetica, sans-serif\" size=\"4\"><strong>Santa&#8217;s looking mighty jolly.<br \/>\nBut why are his eyebrows black,<br \/>\nwhile it appears all other hair<br \/>\nupon his face lacks black?<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><font face=\"arial, helvetica, sans-serif\" size=\"4\"><strong>Could it be the strain of hefting<br \/>\nthat sack upon his back<br \/>\nhas somehow turned most hair to white,<br \/>\nbut left his eyebrows black?<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><font face=\"arial, helvetica, sans-serif\" size=\"4\"><strong>Perhaps it is the stress he feels<br \/>\nwhen nerves begin to crack.<br \/>\nOr maybe elfish mischievousness<br \/>\npainted his eyebrows black?<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><font face=\"arial, helvetica, sans-serif\" size=\"4\"><strong>One thing I had not thought about,<br \/>\nwhich takes a different tack:<br \/>\ncould beard and mustache be glued on<br \/>\nto face with eyebrows black?<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><font face=\"arial, helvetica, sans-serif\" size=\"4\"><strong>Could it be this Rockwell Santa<br \/>\nis really just a hack,<br \/>\npretending to be Santa Claus<br \/>\nin faux white and real black?<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><font face=\"arial, helvetica, sans-serif\" size=\"4\"><strong>Oh woe to us big children who<br \/>\nbelieve Rockwell paints fact!<br \/>\nTo think he&#8217;d render us a fake<br \/>\nraises my eyebrows, &#8230;brown!<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><font face=\"arial, helvetica, sans-serif\"><font size=\"3\">Copyright December 24th 2012 RGD<\/font><br \/>\n<font size=\"4\"> Inspired by the Norman Rockwell painting &#8220;Deck The Halls&#8221;<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This was written for the CPC Simple Sunday Picture challenge. The art is by &#8211; well it&#8217;s obvious isn&#8217;t it? SAY IT ISN&#8217;T SO, NORM! Santa&#8217;s looking mighty jolly. But why are his eyebrows black, while it appears all other hair upon his face lacks black? Could it be the strain of hefting that sack [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-101705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poems"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101705","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101705"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101705\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}