{"id":9100,"date":"2008-04-01T13:10:07","date_gmt":"2008-04-01T18:10:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/2008\/04\/01\/april-flu-day\/"},"modified":"2011-08-05T14:53:30","modified_gmt":"2011-08-05T18:53:30","slug":"april-flu-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/2008\/04\/01\/april-flu-day\/","title":{"rendered":"april flu days"},"content":{"rendered":"

H<\/strong><\/em>onest: we were gonna really wow you with our April Fool’s wit and insight today (and maybe throw in some cherry blossom<\/a> haiku and links to stories<\/a> about the new Nationals Stadium<\/a> in D.C.). But, I somehow picked up a dreadful flu bug over the weekend (at Duanesburg Day<\/a>, I believe), and it apparently has not yet hit its peak. So, there’s nothing much for this achy old fool to do but put up a token posting, head back to my futon, and avoid excess exertion.<\/p>\n

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all fools day
\nmy daughter gets in first
\nwith a pinch and punch<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n

April Fool\u2019s Day \u2013
\na skylark\u2019s song
\nway over my head<\/p>\n

april snow
\na pat of butter
\nmelts in the pan<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\n

…… by matt morden<\/a>
\n\u201cApril Fool\u2019s Day\u201d – The Heron\u2019s Nest<\/em> (June 2001);
\n\u201capril snow\u201d – Mayfly<\/em> #27′ “all fool’s day” – morden haiku<\/em><\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n

April 1st
\nthe haiku muse
\ncalls in sick<\/p>\n

………. by dagosan<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

<\/font> p.s.<\/strong><\/em> Although we traditionally have warned<\/a> our readers to avoid the tidal wave of badly-written April Fool’s humor and concept pieces in cyberspace this time of year, we want to point to an exception<\/a> — George Wallace’s special April Fool’s Blawg Review<\/a>. After hosting Blawg Review #153<\/a> yesterday at his insurance blog, Declarations & Exclusions<\/em>, George is focusing at A Fool in the Forest<\/em> today on blawgs that go beyond legal issues and stories (and has graciously mentioned a number of recent posts from f\/k\/a<\/em>), on legal oddities, and on some Naughty Bits. We suggest you take the time you saved by not having to peruse one of our prolix pieces today, and head over to visit George in his artsy little forest<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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growing old\u2013
\neven the cherry blossoms
\na bit annoying<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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\u2026.. by Kobayashi Issa<\/a>, translated by David G. Lanoue (60 more<\/a> with blossoms)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n

winter sickness
\nmy daughter tucks me in
\nfor the first time<\/p>\n

…….. by matt morden – – The Heron\u2019s Nest,<\/em> Valentine Award (July 2003)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Honest: we were gonna really wow you with our April Fool’s wit and insight today (and maybe throw in some cherry blossom haiku and links to stories about the new Nationals Stadium in D.C.). But, I somehow picked up a dreadful flu bug over the weekend (at Duanesburg Day, I believe), and it apparently has […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":94,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_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}},"categories":[555,1414],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-haiku-or-senryu","category-qs-quickies"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6kP1R-2mM","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9100","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=9100"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9100\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12311,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9100\/revisions\/12311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}