{"id":15004,"date":"2016-12-15T14:11:21","date_gmt":"2016-12-15T19:11:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/multi.nycnewsnetwork.com\/brooklynbuzz\/the-night-before-crisis-mas-a-holiday-poem-for-modern-brooklyn\/"},"modified":"2016-12-15T14:11:21","modified_gmt":"2016-12-15T19:11:21","slug":"the-night-before-crisis-mas-a-holiday-poem-for-modern-brooklyn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nycnewsnetwork.com\/brooklynbuzz\/the-night-before-crisis-mas-a-holiday-poem-for-modern-brooklyn\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018The Night Before Crisis-mas,\u2019 a holiday poem for modern Brooklyn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>via Flickr user emma.maria It was Christmas Eve night down in old Park Slope, The stockings were hung and they looked pretty dope. There was a nip in the air, some frost on the ground, The bodegas stayed open, selling whitefish by the pound. All the strollers were parked, all the yoga mats rolled, Elves on Shelves posed for iPhones (that shit\u2019s Facebook gold). Folks here do all right, if you know what I mean. They\u2019d left out enough kale chips to turn Santa\u2019s poops green. But up in her brownstone, Sally Jones sat awake, With a sense of foreboding she just couldn\u2019t shake. She\u2019d turned off CNN, closed her browsers with a click, Then to no one in particular said, \u201c2016 can suck a dick!\u201d A sudden rap at the window then gave Sally a scare. Toward the fire escape she yelled, \u201cWho the fuck\u2019s out there?\u201d There sat a bearded man, his red suit smelled of sweat. He glared at Sally between vapes from&hellip; Read More<\/p>\n<p>\u2018The Night Before Crisis-mas,\u2019 a holiday poem for modern Brooklyn : <a href=\"http:\/\/brokelyn.com\/night-before-christmas-for-brooklyn\/\">Brokelyn<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>via Flickr user emma.maria It was Christmas Eve night down in old Park Slope, The stockings were hun<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5893,"featured_media":15005,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2864],"tags":[2729],"class_list":["post-15004","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general-news","tag-brokelyn"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v23.4 (Yoast SEO v26.6) - 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