{"id":1353,"date":"2021-05-25T13:19:29","date_gmt":"2021-05-25T20:19:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ralockhart.com\/WP\/?p=1353"},"modified":"2021-05-25T13:19:33","modified_gmt":"2021-05-25T20:19:33","slug":"laughter-on-the-street-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ralockhart.com\/WP\/laughter-on-the-street-2\/","title":{"rendered":"LAUGHTER ON THE STREET"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">They call her Stranger<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Not because she is one<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">She\u2019s well known hereabouts<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Stranger,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Because<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">She\u2019d tell a joke and end it<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">with \u201cthere\u2019s no line to punch\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">and burst out laughing<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Because<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">She\u2019d start a story and in no time<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">she\u2019d announce \u201cto be continued\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">and burst out laughing<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Because<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">She\u2019d issue commands general like<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">only to shout \u201cAt ease! At ease!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">and burst out laughing<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Because<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">She\u2019d make loud purring sounds<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">taunting the guys to \u201cPet me! Pet me!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">and burst out laughing<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Curious<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I sidled up to her<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">calling out, \u201cHi Stranger\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">and burst out laughing<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Curious<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">You calling me Stranger mister?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">what do they call you?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">and she burst out laughing<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Curious<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cStranger Still,\u201d I said<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">smiling as best I could<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">and burst out laughing<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Curious<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">She laughed and laughed<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">our eyes meeting there<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">both laughing and laughing<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>They call her Stranger Not because she is one She\u2019s well known hereabouts Stranger, Because She\u2019d tell a joke and end it with \u201cthere\u2019s no line to punch\u201d and burst out laughing Because She\u2019d start a story and in no time she\u2019d announce \u201cto be continued\u201d and burst out laughing Because She\u2019d issue commands general [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coming-soon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ralockhart.com\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1353","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ralockhart.com\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ralockhart.com\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ralockhart.com\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ralockhart.com\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1353"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ralockhart.com\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1353\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1354,"href":"https:\/\/www.ralockhart.com\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1353\/revisions\/1354"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ralockhart.com\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ralockhart.com\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ralockhart.com\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}