{"id":59726,"date":"2025-05-13T15:29:36","date_gmt":"2025-05-13T05:29:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=59726"},"modified":"2025-05-13T15:29:36","modified_gmt":"2025-05-13T05:29:36","slug":"i-am-loose-with-dr-seuss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=59726","title":{"rendered":"I Am Loose With Dr Seuss"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Alas they&#8217;ve come for Dr. SEUSS,<br \/>\nthey wish to hang him with a noose.<br \/>\nThey claim his tales were racist bent,<br \/>\nthey judged him fast, missed what he meant.<br \/>\nBut if we look inside his tales,<br \/>\nyou&#8217;ll find the balance of the scales.<br \/>\nRemember when Horton heard a Who,<br \/>\nand we heard the wisdom of the Lorax too.<br \/>\nThe lesson behind Green Eggs and Ham,<br \/>\nthat changed the mind of Sam I am.<br \/>\nRemember too the rotten Grinch,<br \/>\nwho once would never give an inch.<br \/>\nHe taught us lessons, one and all,<br \/>\nboys and girls, big and small.<br \/>\nSo if you&#8217;ve judged his works as poor,<br \/>\nyou should re- read them, I implore.<br \/>\nThe man we know as Dr. SEUSS,<br \/>\nturned our imaginations loose.<br \/>\nHis impact was beyond compare,<br \/>\nhe taught us it was good to care.<br \/>\nTo accept the red, the blue, the green,<br \/>\nand on each other we can lean.<br \/>\nSo if you still won&#8217;t give an inch,<br \/>\nyour heart has hardened like the Grinch.<br \/>\nRelease the grudge, the hate, the rue,<br \/>\nand embrace the hope of Cindy Lou.<\/p>\n<p>We support the Seuss!!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alas they&#8217;ve come for Dr. SEUSS, they wish to hang him with a noose. They claim his tales were racist bent, they judged him fast, missed what he meant. But if we look inside his tales, you&#8217;ll find the balance of the scales. Remember when Horton heard a Who, and we heard the wisdom of &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=59726\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;I Am Loose With Dr Seuss&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59726","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-interest","category-humourhumor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59726","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=59726"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59726\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59727,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59726\/revisions\/59727"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}