{"id":3772,"date":"2005-04-21T16:41:21","date_gmt":"2005-04-21T20:41:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/formerlyknownas\/2005\/04\/21\/haiku-potluck-horses-baseball"},"modified":"2011-08-05T14:57:47","modified_gmt":"2011-08-05T18:57:47","slug":"haiku-potluck-horses-baseball-scarecrow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/2005\/04\/21\/haiku-potluck-horses-baseball-scarecrow\/","title":{"rendered":"haiku potluck: horses, baseball, scarecrow"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\"LillyShadwellN\" <\/FONT>Rebecca Lilly<\/EM><\/FONT><\/A>, from <\/FONT>Shadwell Hills<\/FONT><\/EM><\/A> <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/DIV>
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\"tiny  <\/FONT><\/EM>Them too sensitive<\/FONT><\/EM><\/A>?<\/EM>  Why are <\/FONT><\/FONT>Steve Bainbridge<\/FONT><\/A> and <\/FONT>other<\/FONT><\/A> <\/FONT>conservative<\/FONT><\/A> Catholics so upset <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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reacting to negative press with their own counter-hissy-fits — not to  mention their own less-<\/FONT><\/DIV>
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than-objective interpretations of Ratzinger’s pre-papal actions, writings and comments.<\/FONT><\/DIV>
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\"tiny Me too Sensitive?<\/EM>  Although <\/FONT><\/FONT>Prof. B.<\/FONT><\/A> didn’t seem to mind, I couldn’t help but feel the  “dagMugS” <\/EM><\/FONT><\/DIV>
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scourge <\/FONT>of lookism<\/EM><\/A> in Don Hewitt’s op\/ed piece in yesterday’s New York Times<\/EM> (“New with Views<\/A>,” <\/SPAN><\/FONT><\/SPAN><\/FONT><\/FONT><\/DIV>
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women<\/EM>.”<\/SPAN><\/FONT><\/SPAN>  <\/SPAN><\/FONT><\/SPAN>That gets this old goat<\/FONT><\/A>‘s goat.  It’s tough enough being bright and articulate most days.  <\/FONT><\/SPAN><\/FONT><\/SPAN><\/FONT><\/FONT><\/DIV>
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Going <\/SPAN><\/FONT><\/SPAN>for “attractive” is going to be a stretch.   On the other hand, this guy<\/A> got a pretty good slot.<\/SPAN><\/FONT><\/SPAN><\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT><\/DIV>
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time to be a commentor and visitor at other weblogs.<\/SPAN><\/FONT><\/SPAN><\/DIV><\/BLOCKQUOTE><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

  Fog in the meadow — the soft arc of horses’ necks faintly visible       Rainfall pelts the roof — smell of fresh pine chips from the pinto’s empty stall      Rebecca Lilly, from Shadwell Hills  (Birch Prees Press, 2002)       out!safe!out!safe!theumpandthemanageroneshadow              51 candles      &      still […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":94,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2926],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3772","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pre-06-2006"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6kP1R-YQ","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3772","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/94"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3772"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3772\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13253,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3772\/revisions\/13253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}