{"id":123828,"date":"2024-02-26T14:48:36","date_gmt":"2024-02-26T19:48:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=123828"},"modified":"2024-02-26T15:00:15","modified_gmt":"2024-02-26T20:00:15","slug":"dorothy-parkers-convalescent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=123828","title":{"rendered":"Dorothy Parker&#8217;s Convalescent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-1545664804358300\" crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script><br \/>\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display: block; text-align: center;\" data-ad-layout=\"in-article\" data-ad-format=\"fluid\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-1545664804358300\" data-ad-slot=\"8616314829\"><\/ins><br \/>\n<script>\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n<\/script><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=123828\" rel=\"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=123828\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-123829 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Dorothy-300x180.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"180\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Dorothy-300x180.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Dorothy.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>By Karen Beishuizen<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>How shall I wail, that wasn&#8217;t meant for weeping?<br \/>\nLove has run and left me, oh, what then?<br \/>\nDream, then, I must, who never can be sleeping;<br \/>\nWhat if I should meet Love, once again?<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>What if I met him, walking on the highway?<br \/>\nLet him see how lightly I should care.<br \/>\nHe&#8217;d travel his way; I would follow my way;<br \/>\nHum a little song and pass him there.<\/p>\n<p>What if at night, beneath a sky of ashes,<br \/>\nHe should seek my doorstep, pale with need?<br \/>\nThere could he lie, and dry would be my lashes;<br \/>\nLet him stop his noise and let me read.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, but I&#8217;m gay, that&#8217;s better off without him;<br \/>\nWould he&#8217;d come and see me, laughing here.<br \/>\nLord! Don&#8217;t I know I&#8217;d have my arms about him,<br \/>\nCrying to him, &#8220;Oh, come in, my dear!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #808000;\"><a style=\"color: #808000;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.authorhouse.com\/en\/bookstore\/bookdetails\/232300-BOXING-INTERVIEWS-OF-A-LIFETIME\">Click Here to Order Boxing Interviews Of A Lifetime By &#8220;Bad&#8221; Brad Berkwitt<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Karen Beishuizen How shall I wail, that wasn&#8217;t meant for weeping? Love has run and left me, oh, what then? Dream, then, I must, who never can be sleeping; What if I should meet Love, once again?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":123829,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28132],"tags":[31866],"class_list":["post-123828","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-columns-by-karen-beishuizen","tag-dorothy-parkers-convalescent"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123828","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=123828"}],"version-history":[{"count":-3,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123828\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/123829"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=123828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=123828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=123828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}