{"id":4220,"date":"2009-05-05T16:27:00","date_gmt":"2009-05-05T10:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.indiauncut.com\/?p=3380"},"modified":"2009-05-05T16:27:00","modified_gmt":"2009-05-05T10:57:00","slug":"ms-duffy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indiauncut.com\/ms-duffy\/","title":{"rendered":"Ms Duffy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Carol Ann Duffy has pulled off a three-in-one achievement by <a href=\"http:\/\/wtopnews.com\/?nid=383&amp;sid=1665981\" title=\"Carol Ann Duffy chosen as UK poet laureate\">becoming Britain&#8217;s newest poet laureate<\/a>: she is the first woman, the first Scot and the first openly gay person to hold that distinction. In the year that America elected a black president, this is most fitting. I&#8217;m rooting for the amazing <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Adam_Lambert\" title=\"Adam Lambert -- Wikipedia\">Adam Lambert<\/a> to win <i>American Idol<\/i>, which will make him the first gay winner of that show&#8212;and what a landmark year it&#8217;ll be.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, to celebrate all this, let me share with you a poem by Duffy that I rather like:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><b>Mrs Darwin<\/b><br \/>\n<i>by Carol Ann Duffy<\/i><\/p>\n<p>7 April 1852<\/p>\n<p>Went to the Zoo<br \/>\nI said to him &#8212; Something about that chimpanzee over there<br \/>\nreminds me of you<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>*<\/p>\n<p>Speaking of simian beasts, did you know that Shamita Shetty&#8217;s room was <a href=\"http:\/\/ibnlive.in.com\/news\/shamita-shettys-room-ransacked-by-baboons-in-sa\/91716-8.html?from=imalerts\" title=\"Heh!\">ransacked by baboons<\/a> in South Africa recently? Even baboons, it would seem, have evolved to the point that they&#8217;re besotted by celebrity.<\/p>\n<p>(Shamita link via email from <a href=\"http:\/\/nishitd.blogspot.com\/\" title=\"Nishit Desai\">Nishit<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Carol Ann Duffy has pulled off a three-in-one achievement by <a href=\"http:\/\/wtopnews.com\/?nid=383&amp;sid=1665981\" title=\"Carol Ann Duffy chosen as UK poet laureate\">becoming Britain&#8217;s newest poet laureate<\/a>: she is the first woman, the first Scot and the first openly gay person to hold that distinction. In the year that America elected a black president, this is most fitting. I&#8217;m rooting for the amazing <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Adam_Lambert\" title=\"Adam Lambert -- Wikipedia\">Adam Lambert<\/a> to win <i>American Idol<\/i>, which will make him the first gay winner of that show&#8212;and what a landmark year it&#8217;ll be.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, to celebrate all this, let me share with you a poem by Duffy that I rather like:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><b>Mrs Darwin<\/b><br \/>\n<i>by Carol Ann Duffy<\/i><\/p>\n<p>7 April 1852<\/p>\n<p>Went to the Zoo<br \/>\nI said to him &#8212; Something about that chimpanzee over there<br \/>\nreminds me of you<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>*<\/p>\n<p>Speaking of simian beasts, did you know that Shamita Shetty&#8217;s room was <a href=\"http:\/\/ibnlive.in.com\/news\/shamita-shettys-room-ransacked-by-baboons-in-sa\/91716-8.html?from=imalerts\" title=\"Heh!\">ransacked by baboons<\/a> in South Africa recently? Even baboons, it would seem, have evolved to the point that they&#8217;re besotted by celebrity.<\/p>\n<p>(Shamita link via email from <a href=\"http:\/\/nishitd.blogspot.com\/\" title=\"Nishit Desai\">Nishit<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,15],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Ms Duffy - India Uncut<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/indiauncut.com\/ms-duffy\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Ms Duffy - India Uncut\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Carol Ann Duffy has pulled off a three-in-one achievement by becoming Britain&#8217;s newest poet laureate: she is the first woman, the first Scot and the first openly gay person to hold that distinction. 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