{"id":1868,"date":"2023-11-26T20:31:56","date_gmt":"2023-11-26T20:31:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=1868"},"modified":"2023-11-28T22:45:34","modified_gmt":"2023-11-28T22:45:34","slug":"melvin-starting-a-diet","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/m-poems\/melvin-starting-a-diet\/","title":{"rendered":"Melvin &#8211; Starting a diet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Melvin &#8211; Starting a diet<br \/>\nby cricketjeff on September 6, 2007.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved<br \/>\nMartha the dragon is cooking a meal<br \/>\nFor Melvin and Martha to eat<br \/>\nIf you are a dragon you don\u2019t need a stove<br \/>\nTo provide all your cooking with heat<\/p>\n<p>Melvin the dragon was slightly upset<br \/>\nTo find that his clothes didn\u2019t fit<br \/>\nMartha says maybe he\u2019s putting on weight<br \/>\nJust the teeniest tiniest bit<\/p>\n<p>So the dinner she\u2019s cooking is good healthy grub<br \/>\nWhich isn\u2019t what Melvin would like<br \/>\nAnd Melvin is hoping to work up a sweat<br \/>\nHe\u2019s riding an exercise bike<\/p>\n<p>If you are a dragon and you\u2019re blue and you\u2019re fat<br \/>\nAnd you don\u2019t think that flying\u2019s for you<br \/>\nThen starting a diet and walking to work<br \/>\nAre really the least you should do!<br \/>\n Author notes<br \/>\nMelvin isn&#8217;t as happy today<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Melvin &#8211; Starting a diet by cricketjeff on September 6, 2007.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved Martha the dragon is cooking a meal For Melvin and Martha to eat If you are a dragon you don\u2019t need a stove To provide all your cooking with heat Melvin the dragon was slightly upset To find [&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-1868","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1868","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=1868"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1868\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9638,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1868\/revisions\/9638"}],"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=1868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}