{"id":22378,"date":"2020-04-13T07:31:54","date_gmt":"2020-04-13T13:31:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/news\/?p=1820183"},"modified":"2020-04-13T07:31:54","modified_gmt":"2020-04-13T13:31:54","slug":"dolly-parton-nailed-it-with-her-cabin-fever-poem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/music-news\/dolly-parton-nailed-it-with-her-cabin-fever-poem\/","title":{"rendered":"Dolly Parton Nailed It with Her Cabin-Fever Poem"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cmt.mtvnimages.com\/uri\/mgid:ao:image:cmt.com:686664?width=1200&amp;height=675&amp;.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"byline\"> by <span class=\"author\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/news\/author\/bonaguroa\/\" title=\"Posts by Alison Bonaguro\" rel=\"author\">Alison Bonaguro<\/a><\/span> <span class=\"date\"><br \/>\n10m ago<\/span><br \/>\n<\/span> <\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" data-instgrm-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/tv\/B-xdJu6FCR9\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading\" data-instgrm-version=\"12\"><\/blockquote>\n<p>Dolly Parton has been writing songs for about 55 years. That much, we knew. First for some famous country singers, then for herself. <\/p>\n<p>But as it turns out, she\u2019s quite the poet as well. In one of her latest Instagram posts, Parton shared a funny-because-it\u2019s-true poem for her fans, friends and followers that might help ease the burden of cabin fever. Or at least let you know that misery loves company and we\u2019re all #AloneTogether. <\/p>\n<p>Even though Parton does not have children of her own, it\u2019s obvious that she knows exactly what\u2019s going on in homes around the world as parents are trying to work from home as their children are trying to learn from home. With no real end in sight. <\/p>\n<p>Parton doesn\u2019t actually give the one-minute poem a name, so let\u2019s just call it<br \/><strong>\u201cHow Do I Hate Thee, Quarantine?\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This too shall pass<br \/>As all things will<br \/>If the virus don\u2019t kill us<br \/>The staying home will<br \/>The kids are bored and restless<br \/>They scream and yell and squawk<br \/>And the teens and tweens<br \/>They\u2019re just plain mean<br \/>They bite your bleeping head off<br \/>And all those loving couples<br \/>That were once so sweet and cozy<br \/>Now they fight like cats and dogs<br \/>Like Donald and Pelosi<br \/>Lord, get us back to school<br \/>And get us back to work<br \/>And get us out of this dadgum house<br \/>Before someone gets hurt<br \/>And Lord, please find a vaccination<br \/>In the form of a shot or a pill<br \/>Because if the virus don\u2019t kill us<br \/>The staying home will<\/p>\n<div class=\"author\">\n<div class=\"description\"> Alison makes her living loving country music. She&#8217;s based in Chicago, but she&#8217;s always leaving her heart in Nashville. <\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/alisonbonaguro\" target=\"_BLANK\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@alisonbonaguro<\/a> <\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/news\/1820183\/dolly-parton-nailed-it-with-her-cabin-fever-poem\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: CMT News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Alison Bonaguro 10m ago Dolly Parton has been writing songs for about 55 years. That much, we knew. First for some famous country singers, then for herself. But as it turns out, she\u2019s quite the poet as well. In one of her latest Instagram posts, Parton shared a funny-because-it\u2019s-true poem for her fans, friends [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-22378","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-16 21:23:31","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KRKY Ski Country","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22378","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22378"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22378\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}