{"id":224,"date":"2015-12-24T16:14:03","date_gmt":"2015-12-24T20:14:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.freerangepoetry.com\/?p=224"},"modified":"2016-04-09T11:38:28","modified_gmt":"2016-04-09T15:38:28","slug":"go-home-winter-youre-drunk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.freerangepoetry.com\/?p=224","title":{"rendered":"Go Home, Winter, You&#8217;re Drunk!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The holidays are jolly, hanging wreathes and hoisting holly<br \/>\nwith the reindeer and the snowmen standing guard<br \/>\nThe Christmas season&#8217;s calling as the mercury is falling<br \/>\nFrom Baltimore to Boston&#8217;s Harvard Yard<\/p>\n<p>T&#8217;is the season to be freezin&#8217; while we shovel &#8217;round our hovels<br \/>\nAnd we&#8217;ll celebrate the Winter, young and old<br \/>\nBut the temperature&#8217;s not dropping, while we&#8217;re out here Christmas shopping<br \/>\n&#8216;Cause this Winter doesn&#8217;t seem to like the cold!<\/p>\n<p>Go Home, Winter, You&#8217;re Drunk! I&#8217;ll toss your coat back into the trunk.<br \/>\nAutumn&#8217;s riding shotgun, cause Springtime has the keys<br \/>\nWinter&#8217;s in the backseat with its head between its knees<br \/>\nSummer&#8217;s gonna hold your hair \/ while you toss snowballs everywhere<br \/>\nGo Home, Winter, You&#8217;re Drunk!<\/p>\n<p>Frosty&#8217;s sipping boat drinks, singing songs about the ice rinks<br \/>\nand I guess the weather&#8217;s really lost its head<br \/>\nThe elves are all in short sleeves and the snowman&#8217;s having dry heaves<br \/>\nWon&#8217;t someone put this Wintertime to bed?<\/p>\n<p>This Christmas is so green it&#8217;s blue, cause Winter&#8217;s got the Irish flu<br \/>\nand the snowplows and the road crew&#8217;s out of work<br \/>\nThe Solstice and it&#8217;s 82 \/ degrees, and I am telling you<br \/>\nTwelve beers has made this Wintertime a jerk!<\/p>\n<p>Go Home, Winter, You&#8217;re Drunk! I&#8217;ll toss your coat back into the trunk.<br \/>\nAutumn&#8217;s riding shotgun, cause Springtime has the keys<br \/>\nWinter&#8217;s in the backseat with its head between its knees<br \/>\nSummer&#8217;s gonna hold your hair \/ while you toss snowballs everywhere<br \/>\nGo Home, Winter, You&#8217;re Drunk!<\/p>\n<p>Winter just might sober up<br \/>\nthe snowfall forecast&#8217;s climbing<br \/>\nand we might just get some inches after all<br \/>\nIt looks like things will whiten up<br \/>\nShame about the timing<br \/>\n&#8216;Cause it ain&#8217;t gonna snow here till next fall!<\/p>\n<p>Go Home, Winter, You&#8217;re Drunk! I&#8217;ll toss your coat back into the trunk.<br \/>\nAutumn&#8217;s riding shotgun, cause Springtime has the keys<br \/>\nWinter&#8217;s in the backseat with its head between its knees<br \/>\nSummer&#8217;s gonna hold your hair \/ while you toss snowballs everywhere<br \/>\nGo Home, Winter, You&#8217;re Drunk!<br \/>\nGo Home, Winter, You&#8217;re Drunk!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The holidays are jolly, hanging wreathes and hoisting holly with the reindeer and the snowmen standing guard The Christmas season&#8217;s calling as the mercury is falling From Baltimore to Boston&#8217;s&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.freerangepoetry.com\/?p=224\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Go Home, Winter, You&#8217;re Drunk!<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.freerangepoetry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.freerangepoetry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.freerangepoetry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.freerangepoetry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.freerangepoetry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=224"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.freerangepoetry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":249,"href":"http:\/\/www.freerangepoetry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224\/revisions\/249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.freerangepoetry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.freerangepoetry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.freerangepoetry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}