{"id":2026,"date":"2012-05-13T04:53:27","date_gmt":"2012-05-13T04:53:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.miguelitoslittlegreencar.com\/blog\/?p=2026"},"modified":"2012-06-02T05:03:56","modified_gmt":"2012-06-02T05:03:56","slug":"being-poetic-with-douglas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.miguelitoslittlegreencar.com\/blog\/being-poetic-with-douglas\/","title":{"rendered":"Being Poetic With Douglas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.miguelitoslittlegreencar.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Miguelitos-Little-Green-Car-6328.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-2027\" title=\"Miguelitos Little Green Car-6328\" src=\"http:\/\/www.miguelitoslittlegreencar.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Miguelitos-Little-Green-Car-6328.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"374\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.miguelitoslittlegreencar.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Miguelitos-Little-Green-Car-6328.jpg 700w, http:\/\/www.miguelitoslittlegreencar.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Miguelitos-Little-Green-Car-6328-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Being Poetic With Douglas<br \/>\n<\/strong>Featuring Douglas Hicton<br \/>\nMay 13, 2012<br \/>\nToronto, Ontario, Canada<\/p>\n<p>Doug is a writer and composer, with three musicals staged so far, including an Off Broadway production of <em>&#8220;The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari&#8221;<\/em>, written with Richard Lawton.\u00a0 He&#8217;s an alumni of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jeopardy.com\/\">JEOPARDY!<\/a> Tournament of Champions, and has written extensively for Toronto&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thegridto.com\/\">eyeWEEKLY Magazine<\/a>.\u00a0 Doug is originally from Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada, and but currently resides in Toronto.<\/p>\n<p>Doug is holding a poem that he wrote for Miguelito&#8217;s Little Green Car. \u00a0It reads:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Miguelito&#8217;s little car,<br \/>\nYou have journeyed rather far.<br \/>\nTravelling the world around,<br \/>\nCovering all sorts of ground.<br \/>\nThough a Buick&#8217;s built to last,<br \/>\nDon&#8217;t you burn through tires fast?<\/p>\n<p>Truly green, you&#8217;re fueled by smiles<br \/>\nOver miles and miles and miles.<br \/>\nHere and there, and quickly gone,<br \/>\nAnd you&#8217;ll just keep moving on,<br \/>\nSince the smiling is, of course,<br \/>\nA renewable resource.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Being Poetic With Douglas Featuring Douglas Hicton May 13, 2012 Toronto, Ontario, Canada Doug is a writer and composer, with three musicals staged so far, including an Off Broadway production of &#8220;The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari&#8221;, written with Richard Lawton.\u00a0 He&#8217;s an alumni of the JEOPARDY! Tournament of Champions, and has written extensively for Toronto&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6,51,40],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.miguelitoslittlegreencar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2026"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.miguelitoslittlegreencar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.miguelitoslittlegreencar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.miguelitoslittlegreencar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.miguelitoslittlegreencar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2026"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.miguelitoslittlegreencar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2026\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2036,"href":"http:\/\/www.miguelitoslittlegreencar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2026\/revisions\/2036"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.miguelitoslittlegreencar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.miguelitoslittlegreencar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.miguelitoslittlegreencar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}