{"id":3471,"date":"2025-02-09T20:54:19","date_gmt":"2025-02-09T20:54:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/?p=3471"},"modified":"2025-02-09T20:54:19","modified_gmt":"2025-02-09T20:54:19","slug":"the-executive-restores-plastic-straws","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/?p=3471","title":{"rendered":"The Executive Restores Plastic Straws"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/ionesco-1200.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/ionesco-1200-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3472\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/ionesco-1200-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/ionesco-1200-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/ionesco-1200-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/ionesco-1200.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I\u2019m a stowaway on a cold rubber boat.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My desires and old love letters are the sails,<br \/>I paddle with spoons and old New Yorkers.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>From a surge of waves comes a sleek head,<br \/>a piercing in its nose \u2013<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A seal with a straw of plastic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And birds fly, gone as my thoughts<br \/>to have remembered<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>what some once called \u201cthe other\u201d \u2013<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>small wonder; the Captain is burning<br \/>crotches with cigars; praising trench\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>warfare with swigs of Coca-Cola,\u00a0<br \/>shooting maggots. A rhinoceros in pink tutu dances.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With belt and surveillance cameras,<br \/>he tramples a dozen bouquets of white roses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m a stowaway on a cold rubber boat.&nbsp; My desires and old love letters are the sails,I paddle with spoons and old New Yorkers.\u00a0\u00a0 From a surge of waves comes a sleek head,a piercing in its nose \u2013 A seal &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/?p=3471\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1570,1572,1571,1569,1246,1563,1567,1568,1247,1564,936],"class_list":["post-3471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-dead","tag-eo-2","tag-executiveorder","tag-woke","tag-absurdity","tag-malignant-narcissist","tag-paper-straws","tag-plastic-straws","tag-reality","tag-shipwreck","tag-trump-2"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4D5qU-TZ","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3471","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3471"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3471\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3473,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3471\/revisions\/3473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}