{"id":3587,"date":"2025-09-19T11:20:24","date_gmt":"2025-09-19T18:20:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/raginggrannies.org\/seattle\/?p=3587"},"modified":"2025-09-19T11:20:24","modified_gmt":"2025-09-19T18:20:24","slug":"shirley-shirley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/raginggrannies.org\/seattle\/shirley-shirley\/","title":{"rendered":"Shirley, Shirley"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>Tune: Bicycle Built for Two<br>By Laurie Rostholder<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Shirley Shirley<br>We always will miss you<br>And we know that<br>You&#8217;d hate to see us blue<br>So we&#8217;ll sing about your capers<br>Your picture in the papers<br>Your body did slow<br>But your mind was gold<br>We wa-ant to be like you<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You were a belly dancer<br>Loved acting and you sang<br>You took the stage in New York<br>Beat bullies at their game<br>You showed us how to ra-age<br>Were loving and a sa-age<br>We want your zest<br>Your values were best<br>We wa-ant to be like you<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We so admired<br>All you continued to learn<br>You weren&#8217;t an armchair grannie<br>So many arrests you earned<br>With love and strong opinions<br>Ask any of your minions<br>You modelled so much<br>With a humorous touch<br>Shirley, we&#8217;ll always love you!<br>Shirley, we&#8217;ll always love you!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tune: Bicycle Built for TwoBy Laurie Rostholder Shirley ShirleyWe always will miss youAnd we know thatYou&#8217;d hate to see us blueSo we&#8217;ll sing about your capersYour picture in the papersYour body did slowBut your mind was goldWe wa-ant to be like you You were a belly dancerLoved acting and you sangYou took the stage in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[58],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/raginggrannies.org\/seattle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3587"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/raginggrannies.org\/seattle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/raginggrannies.org\/seattle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raginggrannies.org\/seattle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raginggrannies.org\/seattle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3587"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/raginggrannies.org\/seattle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3587\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/raginggrannies.org\/seattle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raginggrannies.org\/seattle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raginggrannies.org\/seattle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}