{"id":1885,"date":"2023-11-26T20:31:56","date_gmt":"2023-11-26T20:31:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=1885"},"modified":"2023-11-28T22:45:34","modified_gmt":"2023-11-28T22:45:34","slug":"melvin-on-holiday","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/m-poems\/melvin-on-holiday\/","title":{"rendered":"Melvin on Holiday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Melvin on Holiday<br \/>\nby cricketjeff on September 11, 2007.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved<br \/>\nMelvin\u2019s off on holiday<br \/>\nHe got the tickets yesterday<br \/>\nMartha\u2019s bought a new bikini<br \/>\nMelvin hopes it\u2019s rather teeny<\/p>\n<p>Other dragons use their wings<br \/>\nMelvin uses trains and things<br \/>\nSince 9-11 most airline crew<br \/>\nWon\u2019t carry dragons two by two<\/p>\n<p>But the ferry captain says \u201cAll right\u201d<br \/>\nI\u2019ll take you to the Isle of Wight<br \/>\nThe ice-cream van\u2019s in easy reach<br \/>\nWhile they hunt for fossils on the beach<\/p>\n<p>Martha finds a fossil head<br \/>\nThat looks just like her Uncle Fred<br \/>\nThe museum staff can not be sure<br \/>\nShe may have found a dinosaur<\/p>\n<p>The bed and breakfast where they stay<br \/>\nSays \u201cDragons welcome, any day\u201d<br \/>\nThey\u2019re pleased to see such toleration<br \/>\nSpreading right across the nation<\/p>\n<p>The landlady\u2019s ready at the door<br \/>\nWith fireproof sheets (in case they snore!)<br \/>\nAnd Martha\u2019s cancelled Melvin\u2019s diet<br \/>\nSo breakfast time will be a riot!<\/p>\n<p>The second day the funfair\u2019s due<br \/>\nOur happy pair will join the queue<br \/>\nThey won\u2019t be seeing all the sites<br \/>\nMartha\u2019s quite afraid of heights<\/p>\n<p>The bonfire party after dark<br \/>\nThey think will be a jolly lark<br \/>\nAnd if the fire just will not go<br \/>\nMelvin can give a little blow<\/p>\n<p>Their holiday\u2019s a great success<br \/>\nThere\u2019s no way they could hate it less<br \/>\nBut a week in Cowes or out in Spain<br \/>\nWill soon be done then home again.<\/p>\n<p>The Holiday was lots of fun<br \/>\nBut now unpacking\u2019s to be done<br \/>\nThose bermuda shorts were rather cute<br \/>\nBut at work Melvin wears a suit<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Melvin on Holiday by cricketjeff on September 11, 2007.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved Melvin\u2019s off on holiday He got the tickets yesterday Martha\u2019s bought a new bikini Melvin hopes it\u2019s rather teeny Other dragons use their wings Melvin uses trains and things Since 9-11 most airline crew Won\u2019t carry dragons two by two [&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-1885","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1885","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=1885"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1885\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9623,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1885\/revisions\/9623"}],"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=1885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}