including the Peter Pan bus driver.<\/p>\n
He seems normal enough \u2013
\nuntil we\u2019re on the road.<\/p>\n
With him at the wheel
\nand on the microphone,
\nhe\u2019s got a captive audience.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis bus will make the
\nfollowing stops:
\nNew Britain, Connecticut;
\nHartford, Connecticut;
\nSpringfield, Northampton, Greenfield, Massachusetts;
\nBrattleboro, Vermont and points north
\nto White River Junction.
\nEstimated time of arrival
\nis when you get there.\u201d<\/p>\n
I see him practicing his delivery
\nat home in the bathroom mirror,
\nmaking sure his face doesn\u2019t give away
\nhis punch line.
\nHe perfects his timing,
\ngets it just right,
\nbefore delivering it to his audience.<\/p>\n
But we are a small
\nand unresponsive group.
\nWhen he gets home
\nwill he tell his wife
\nwe were a tough crowd?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
including the Peter Pan bus driver. He seems normal enough \u2013 until we\u2019re on the road. With him at the wheel and on the microphone, he\u2019s got a captive audience. \u201cThis bus will make the following stops: New Britain, Connecticut; Hartford, Connecticut; Springfield, Northampton, Greenfield, Massachusetts; Brattleboro, Vermont and points north to White River Junction. … Continue reading Everyone’s a comedian<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[62],"tags":[],"issue":[6876],"class_list":["post-2082","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry","issue-6876"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-13 01:34:18","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gcc.mass.edu\/plum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2082","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gcc.mass.edu\/plum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gcc.mass.edu\/plum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gcc.mass.edu\/plum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gcc.mass.edu\/plum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2082"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.gcc.mass.edu\/plum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2082\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gcc.mass.edu\/plum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gcc.mass.edu\/plum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gcc.mass.edu\/plum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2082"},{"taxonomy":"issue","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gcc.mass.edu\/plum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/issue?post=2082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}