{"id":383,"date":"2008-11-09T22:19:45","date_gmt":"2008-11-09T20:19:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fuzzy-fish.com\/wordpress-he\/?p=383"},"modified":"2008-12-20T17:10:28","modified_gmt":"2008-12-20T15:10:28","slug":"lady-box-dog-and-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.fuzzy-fish.com\/wordpress-he\/archives\/383","title":{"rendered":"Lady, Box, Dog and Me"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"ltr\" align=\"left\">\n<p><strong>Lady, Box, Dog and Me<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>Tune: The Sick Note (or rather, &quot;The Really Sick Note&quot;, by Tom Smith)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>My friends, I sing this little song to tell a tale of woe<br \/>\nAbout a misadventure that I had a while ago<br \/>\nI've managed to recover, but I'm telling you the truth<br \/>\nTo menace worlds is now a game of my forgotten youth<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nI was prowling in a station off a planet nice and free<br \/>\nI charmed a couple minions, took control of C&#038;C<br \/>\nWhen in she walked, or should I say she made an enterance<br \/>\nI knew that if I played it right, I had the perfect chance<\/p>\n<p>She had two hearts, she had odd clothes, her quips were ten a dime<br \/>\nIt wasn't hard to figure who she traveled with through time<br \/>\nShe looked around, her eyes met mine, I gave a little smile<br \/>\nBut she smiled back, I should've known that this would take a while<\/p>\n<p>To my surprise and joy, she'd had enough of teeth 'n curls<br \/>\nI did some tinkering with her drink, her world began to whirl<br \/>\nAnd so, the long and short of it (she didn't see her doom)<br \/>\nWe went back to her ship to desecrate the Zero Room<\/p>\n<p>We shared some witty banter, then we started giving eyes<br \/>\nShe froze in place, her mind all mine, completely hypnotized<br \/>\nShe mine, HIM gone, I hacked the frame and started on the log<br \/>\nAnd that's when I first noticed that the lady had a dog<\/p>\n<p>That tin dog came in whirring, sounding worried and surprised<br \/>\nI tried to hypnotize him, but he hadn't any eyes<br \/>\nThen doggy saw his mistress too far gone to even scream<br \/>\nAnd said &quot;alert&quot;, &quot;alarm&quot;, and &quot;halt&quot;, then used his lazer beam<\/p>\n<p>I gave a yelp and leapt aside, the beam bounced off the wall<br \/>\nMy shoe caught fire, my foot got stuck, I took a might fall<br \/>\nThe tin dog sounded quite annoyed, he gave another shot<br \/>\nBefore I got to dodge again, my pants were really hot<\/p>\n<p>Now, lazers, fire and shrinking gun do not a good mix make<br \/>\nI found myself at two-feet height, and also somewhat baked<br \/>\nShrunken, burnt and hurting &#8211; but friend, what's really bad<br \/>\nWas that this was the finest ploy that I have ever had&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>I'm doing rather better since that deep-fried doggy bag<br \/>\nI'm just as tall as ever, found new velvet for the rags<br \/>\nBut I've sworn off blonde Time Ladies with cute dog-shaped machines &#8211;<br \/>\nAnd now you know where the Master was before season eighteen.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lady, Box, Dog and Me Tune: The Sick Note (or rather, &quot;The Really Sick Note&quot;, by Tom Smith) My friends, I sing this little song to tell a tale of woe About a misadventure that I had a while ago I've managed to recover, but I'm telling you the truth To menace worlds is now [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[27,20],"tags":[8],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fuzzy-fish.com\/wordpress-he\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fuzzy-fish.com\/wordpress-he\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fuzzy-fish.com\/wordpress-he\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fuzzy-fish.com\/wordpress-he\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fuzzy-fish.com\/wordpress-he\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=383"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.fuzzy-fish.com\/wordpress-he\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":385,"href":"http:\/\/www.fuzzy-fish.com\/wordpress-he\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383\/revisions\/385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fuzzy-fish.com\/wordpress-he\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fuzzy-fish.com\/wordpress-he\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fuzzy-fish.com\/wordpress-he\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}