{"id":18285,"date":"2013-12-04T20:36:24","date_gmt":"2013-12-05T02:36:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/?p=18285"},"modified":"2013-12-04T20:36:24","modified_gmt":"2013-12-05T02:36:24","slug":"rt-rybak-the-rhyming-mayor-of-minneapolis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2013\/12\/04\/rt-rybak-the-rhyming-mayor-of-minneapolis\/","title":{"rendered":"RT Rybak, The Rhyming Mayor of Minneapolis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It occurs to me that many of you may not know this because you don&#8217;t live in the Twin Cities or are not Facebook Friends of the Mayor of Minneapolis, but the guy is very funny and creative and produces a lot of poetry, especially this time of year.<\/p>\n<p>In Minneapolis, there is an arcane system of plowing snow that I will not even attempt to explain.  (I come from New York and Boston where the system for removing snow from the city streets makes perfect sense.)  The point is, if you mess up they tow your car to a sort of automotive dungeon and it costs a lot of money to get it back.<\/p>\n<p>So, when the snow flakes start flying RT starts rhyming, as a public service.  Like this:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/files\/2013\/12\/RT_Rybak_Mayor_Dancing.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/files\/2013\/12\/RT_Rybak_Mayor_Dancing-193x300.jpg?resize=193%2C300\" alt=\"RT_Rybak_Mayor_Dancing\" width=\"193\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-18287\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><strong><em>On snow emergency routes:<br \/>\nHere&#8217;s your motto<br \/>\nBy nine o&#8217;clock tonight<br \/>\nPlease move your auto<\/p>\n<p>Here in Fun City<br \/>\nRock out, wine and dine<br \/>\nBut from snow emergency routes<br \/>\nMove your car by nine<\/p>\n<p>You ain&#8217;t so groovy<br \/>\nYou ain&#8217;t no playa<br \/>\nIf you can&#8217;t move your car<br \/>\nWithout a poem from da Maya<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The mayor will be replaced in January, but we are hoping he will stay on as Poet Laureate of the City of Lakes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It occurs to me that many of you may not know this because you don&#8217;t live in the Twin Cities or are not Facebook Friends of the Mayor of Minneapolis, but the guy is very funny and creative and produces a lot of poetry, especially this time of year. In Minneapolis, there is an arcane &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2013\/12\/04\/rt-rybak-the-rhyming-mayor-of-minneapolis\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">RT Rybak, The Rhyming Mayor of Minneapolis<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18286,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[491,3905,3906,5020],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-4KV","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18285"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18285"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18285\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}