{"id":1876,"date":"2023-11-26T20:31:56","date_gmt":"2023-11-26T20:31:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=1876"},"modified":"2023-11-28T22:53:32","modified_gmt":"2023-11-28T22:53:32","slug":"poor-melvin","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/p-poems\/poor-melvin\/","title":{"rendered":"Poor Melvin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Poor Melvin<br \/>\nby cricketjeff on September 9, 2007.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved<br \/>\nMelvin is not eating dinner<br \/>\nMelvin thinks he should be thinner<br \/>\nMelvin goes to work by bike<br \/>\nMelvin does things he does not like<br \/>\nAll because his clothes are tight<br \/>\nMelvin tries to make things right<\/p>\n<p>When a dragon puts on weight<br \/>\nHis flying skills are not that great<br \/>\nSo he has to work off steam<br \/>\nMust not eat too much ice-cream<br \/>\nMelvin thinks life is not fair<br \/>\nWhy should other dragons care<br \/>\nIt is not his fault he is fat and blue<br \/>\nI like Melvin this way, do you?<br \/>\n Author notes<br \/>\nThere are several other Melvin poems on my page, I would hope a six year old<br \/>\nwould like any of them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Poor Melvin by cricketjeff on September 9, 2007.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved Melvin is not eating dinner Melvin thinks he should be thinner Melvin goes to work by bike Melvin does things he does not like All because his clothes are tight Melvin tries to make things right When a dragon puts on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":9734,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1876","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1876","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=1876"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1876\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9632,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1876\/revisions\/9632"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}