{"id":11180,"date":"2016-01-25T16:45:42","date_gmt":"2016-01-25T15:45:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jochenenglish.de\/?p=11180"},"modified":"2018-01-22T16:08:10","modified_gmt":"2018-01-22T15:08:10","slug":"hw-sick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jochenlueders.de\/?p=11180","title":{"rendered":"HW Sick"},"content":{"rendered":"

Stu\u00addy Shel Silverstein\u2019s poem \u201cSick\u201d. Look up unknown words at PONS<\/a>. 
\n
\u201cI can\u00adnot go to school today,\u201c
\nSaid litt\u00adle Peg\u00adgy Ann McKay.
\n\u201cI have the meas\u00adles and the mumps,
\nA gash, a rash and pur\u00adple bumps.
\nMy mouth is wet, my throat is dry,
\nI\u2019m going blind in my right eye.
\nMy ton\u00adsils are as big as rocks,
\nI\u2019ve coun\u00adted six\u00adteen chi\u00adcken pox
\nAnd there\u2019s one more\u2014that\u2019s seventeen,
\nAnd don\u2019t you think my face looks green?
\nMy leg is cut\u2014my eyes are blue\u2014
\nIt might be insta\u00adma\u00adtic flu.
\nI cough and snee\u00adze and gasp and choke,
\nI\u2019m sure that my left leg is broke\u2014
\nMy hip hurts when I move my chin,
\nMy bel\u00adly button\u2019s caving in,
\nMy back is wren\u00adched, my ankle\u2019s sprained,
\nMy \u2018pen\u00addix pains each time it rains.
\nMy nose is cold, my toes are numb.
\nI have a sliver in my thumb.
\nMy neck is stiff, my voice is weak,
\nI hard\u00adly whisper when I speak.
\nMy ton\u00adgue is fil\u00adling up my mouth,
\nI think my hair is fal\u00adling out.
\nMy elbow\u2019s bent, my spi\u00adne ain\u2019t straight,
\nMy tem\u00adpe\u00adra\u00adtu\u00adre is one-o-eight.
\nMy brain is shrunk, I can\u00adnot hear,
\nThe\u00adre is a hole insi\u00adde my ear.
\nI have a hang\u00adnail, and my heart is\u2014what?
\nWhat\u2019s that? What\u2019s that you say?
\nYou say today is Saturday?
\nG\u2019bye, I\u2019m going out to play!\u201d<\/p>\n

You can gain THREE MRs when you memo\u00adri\u00adze the WHOLE poem AND when you know what words like gash, ton\u00adsils, cho\u00adke <\/em>etc. mean in German.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Stu\u00addy Shel Silverstein\u2019s poem \u201cSick\u201d. Look up unknown words at PONS. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[19,73,64,10],"class_list":["post-11180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alg","tag-humour","tag-hw","tag-poetry","tag-schuler"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jochenlueders.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11180","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jochenlueders.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jochenlueders.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jochenlueders.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jochenlueders.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11180"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/jochenlueders.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11180\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13579,"href":"https:\/\/jochenlueders.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11180\/revisions\/13579"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jochenlueders.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jochenlueders.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jochenlueders.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}