{"id":1864,"date":"2023-11-26T20:31:56","date_gmt":"2023-11-26T20:31:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=1864"},"modified":"2023-11-28T22:45:34","modified_gmt":"2023-11-28T22:45:34","slug":"melvin-the-dragon","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/m-poems\/melvin-the-dragon\/","title":{"rendered":"Melvin the dragon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Melvin the dragon<br \/>\nby cricketjeff on September 4, 2007.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved<br \/>\nMelvin is a friendly dragon<br \/>\nMelvin likes ice-cream<br \/>\nMelvin always feels uneasy<br \/>\nIf he makes a lady scream<\/p>\n<p>Melvin\u2019s not a noisy dragon<br \/>\nMelvin plays the flute<br \/>\nMelvin\u2019s not a spiky dragon<br \/>\nMelvin\u2019s rather cute<\/p>\n<p>Melvin is a generous dragon<br \/>\nMelvin likes to share<br \/>\nMelvin doesn\u2019t hoard his treasure<br \/>\nLeaves it here and there<\/p>\n<p>Melvin rarely fries a stranger<br \/>\nMelvin takes great care<br \/>\nBut if you\u2019re standing near a dragon<br \/>\nIt pays to be aware!<\/p>\n<p>Melvin is a dreadful flyer<br \/>\nHe has stumpy wings<br \/>\nMelvin is a bit short sighted<br \/>\nHe bumps into things<\/p>\n<p>Melvin likes a lady dragon<br \/>\nMartha is her name<br \/>\nMartha also loves her ice-cream<br \/>\nThe two are just the same<\/p>\n<p>If you chance to see a dragon<br \/>\nRather fat and blue<br \/>\nIf that dragon has no ice-cream<br \/>\nYou know what to do!<br \/>\n Author notes<br \/>\nI met Melvin last night, he has quite a few friends and I\u2019ve promised them<br \/>\ntheir own website. Melvin is very shy of cameras so if you know anyone who is<br \/>\nespecially good at drawing fat, cute, blue dragons please let me know and I\u2019ll<br \/>\nintroduce them to Melvin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Melvin the dragon by cricketjeff on September 4, 2007.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved Melvin is a friendly dragon Melvin likes ice-cream Melvin always feels uneasy If he makes a lady scream Melvin\u2019s not a noisy dragon Melvin plays the flute Melvin\u2019s not a spiky dragon Melvin\u2019s rather cute Melvin is a generous dragon [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":9728,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1864","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1864","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1864"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1864\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9644,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1864\/revisions\/9644"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}