{"id":465,"date":"2006-08-14T14:54:54","date_gmt":"2006-08-14T18:54:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lizzieandrewborden.com\/MondoLizzie\/2006\/08\/14\/lizziegator\/"},"modified":"2006-08-14T14:54:54","modified_gmt":"2006-08-14T18:54:54","slug":"lizziegator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lizzieandrewborden.com\/mondolizzie\/lizziegator\/","title":{"rendered":"LizzieGator"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Artist Noel Miller has produced a cute book titled <em>Sophisticated Alligators: A Handbook of Reptilian Repartee<\/em> (1995), in which <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0679443215\">she depicts famous people from history as alligators<\/a>. As the dust jacket states, &#8220;Ms. Miller contends that each of us contains his or her own inner alligator &#8212; acknowledged or not.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I had ordered a copy to use one of the images in my talk on Lizzie Borden in Popular Culture in Fall River last week, but, alas, it didn&#8217;t arrive in time. But it was waiting for me when I got back so I can share the image with you here.<\/p>\n<p>She also has a poem on the facing page:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>LIZZIE. Lizzie Borden, alligator, Took and ax and gave her mater Forty whacks. When she&#8217;d done, she gave her pater (Who dropped by for a moment later) Forty-one. Thus did Lizzie Borden, gator, Giver her folks her imprimatur.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I rather like her green!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image464\" src=\"https:\/\/lizzieandrewborden.com\/mondolizzie\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2006\/08\/croc.jpg\" class=\"centered\" alt=\"noelmiller\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Artist Noel Miller has produced a cute book titled Sophisticated Alligators: A Handbook of Reptilian Repartee (1995), in which she depicts famous people from history as alligators. As the dust jacket states, &#8220;Ms. Miller contends that each of us contains his or her own inner alligator &#8212; acknowledged or not.&#8221; I had ordered a copy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,7,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-and-media-reviews","category-borden-buzz","category-lizzie-web-images"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lizzieandrewborden.com\/mondolizzie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lizzieandrewborden.com\/mondolizzie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lizzieandrewborden.com\/mondolizzie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lizzieandrewborden.com\/mondolizzie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lizzieandrewborden.com\/mondolizzie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=465"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lizzieandrewborden.com\/mondolizzie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lizzieandrewborden.com\/mondolizzie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lizzieandrewborden.com\/mondolizzie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lizzieandrewborden.com\/mondolizzie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}