{"id":4511,"date":"2026-10-03T14:04:01","date_gmt":"2026-10-03T14:04:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eurolit.net\/?p=4511"},"modified":"2026-10-03T16:13:00","modified_gmt":"2026-10-03T16:13:00","slug":"the-gilded-ballroom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eurolit.net\/?p=4511","title":{"rendered":"The Gilded Ballroom"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse\">In the ballroom, the mighty ballroom,<br>the d-duck counts his cash.<br>In the ballroom, the gilded ballroom,<br>the d-duck makes it flash.<br><br><em>A-wimoweh, an-orange-weh,<br>a-billion-weh, tremendous-weh\u2014<br>A-wimoweh, an-orange-weh,<br>while everyone else gets the bill.<\/em><br><br>Shush, my darling,<br>don\u2019t talk, my darling\u2014<br>the d-duck\u2019s dreaming still.<br><br>In the ballroom, the mighty ballroom,<br>the d-duck sleeps tonight.<br>With ugly hands upon his fortune,<br>clutching every dollar tight.<br><br><em>A-wimoweh, an-orange-weh,<br>a-billion-weh, tremendous-weh\u2014<br>A-wimoweh, an-orange-weh,<br>the d-duck sleeps tonight.<\/em><br><\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A mock-grand political cabaret song<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":4512,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[188,50,48,185,13,118],"tags":[529,530,183,528],"class_list":["post-4511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fable","category-non-fiction","category-poetry","category-satire","category-trails","category-tunes-into-tales","tag-ballroom","tag-d-duck","tag-orange","tag-political-cabaret-song"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eurolit.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4511","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eurolit.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eurolit.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eurolit.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eurolit.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4511"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eurolit.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4511\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4513,"href":"https:\/\/eurolit.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4511\/revisions\/4513"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eurolit.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eurolit.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eurolit.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eurolit.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}