{"id":9,"date":"2011-04-08T13:00:47","date_gmt":"2011-04-08T13:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bzzwords.com\/cece\/?p=9"},"modified":"2011-04-23T04:56:43","modified_gmt":"2011-04-23T04:56:43","slug":"the-moving-finger-writes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bzzwords.com\/cece\/?p=9","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;The Moving Finger Writes&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_31\" style=\"width: 174px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.bzzwords.com\/cece\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/RudolphsShinyNewYear1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-31\" class=\"size-full wp-image-31\" title=\"Rudolph's Shiny New Year\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.bzzwords.com\/cece\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/RudolphsShinyNewYear1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"164\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-31\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rudolph&#39;s Shiny New Year cover.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;The Moving Finger Writes&#8221; originally comes from the <em>Rubaiyat<\/em>.\u00a0 The <em>Rubaiyat<\/em> is an ancient book of poetry written by Persian poet Omar Khayyam.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Moving Finger writes: and, having writ,<br \/>\nMoves on: nor all thy Piety nor Wit<br \/>\nShall lure it back to cancel half a Line,<br \/>\nNor all thy Tears wash out a Word of it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The song that we know today is from\u00a0the holiday televison special, &#8220;Rudolph&#8217;s Shiny New Year,&#8221; and\u00a0is performed by Red Skelton.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0&#8220;The Moving Finger Writes&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The moving finger writes,<br \/>\nAnd having writ, moves on<br \/>\nYou can\u2019t hold back the clock<br \/>\nIt just ticks on and on<br \/>\nThe moving finger writes<br \/>\nAnd having writ, moves on<br \/>\nSo treasure memories<br \/>\nFor what is gone is gone<br \/>\nAnd though you may sweat and strive<br \/>\nDon\u2019t you know it\u2019s great<br \/>\nJust to be alive<br \/>\nSo make every moment count<br \/>\nRejoice with every dawn<br \/>\nThe moving finger writes<br \/>\nAnd having writ, moves on<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The Moving Finger Writes&#8221; originally comes from the Rubaiyat.\u00a0 The Rubaiyat is an ancient book of poetry written by Persian poet Omar Khayyam. &#8220;The Moving Finger writes: and, having writ, Moves on: nor all thy Piety nor Wit Shall lure &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.bzzwords.com\/cece\/?p=9\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":57,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bzzwords.com\/cece\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bzzwords.com\/cece\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bzzwords.com\/cece\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bzzwords.com\/cece\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bzzwords.com\/cece\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bzzwords.com\/cece\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":186,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bzzwords.com\/cece\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9\/revisions\/186"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bzzwords.com\/cece\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/57"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bzzwords.com\/cece\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bzzwords.com\/cece\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bzzwords.com\/cece\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}