{"id":1919,"date":"2023-11-26T20:31:56","date_gmt":"2023-11-26T20:31:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=1919"},"modified":"2023-11-28T22:45:34","modified_gmt":"2023-11-28T22:45:34","slug":"melvin-the-dragon-at-the-cricket","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/m-poems\/melvin-the-dragon-at-the-cricket\/","title":{"rendered":"Melvin the dragon at the cricket"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Melvin the dragon at the cricket<br \/>\nby cricketjeff on September 20, 2007.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved<br \/>\nMelvin the Dragon is watching the cricket<br \/>\nMartha&#8217;s along for the ride<br \/>\nMelvin his hoping they won&#8217;t lose a wicket<br \/>\nMartha&#8217;s asleep by his side<br \/>\nMelvin in dreams would open the batting<br \/>\nMartha goes shopping for shoes<br \/>\nAll of the fans are enjoying their chatting<br \/>\nMartha&#8217;s enjoying her snooze!<\/p>\n<p>The balls not a good one, the batsman has thumped it<br \/>\nEver so high to the crowd<br \/>\nThe batting&#8217;s been good but that shot has trumped it<br \/>\nThe fans are cheering aloud<br \/>\nThe ball&#8217;s coming down it could be like murder<br \/>\nIf the ball hits a head in the stand<br \/>\nMartha wakes up, the cheering has stirred her<br \/>\nCatches the ball in one hand<br \/>\nShe doesn&#8217;t stand up, to throw back their missile<br \/>\nBowls it from her seated pose<br \/>\nSpeeds through the air like a rocket that&#8217;s fissile<br \/>\nStraight at the poor keeper&#8217;s nose!<\/p>\n<p>Melvin the dragon is watching the cricket<br \/>\nMartha is playing the game<br \/>\nEverytime Martha can bowl out a batsman<br \/>\nMelvin can bask in her fame<br \/>\nMartha&#8217;s a marvel a bowler that&#8217;s fiery<br \/>\nClearly the star of her team<br \/>\nMelvin&#8217;s so proud of his girl to admire he<br \/>\nHas ordered another ice-cream!<br \/>\n Author notes<br \/>\nYou don&#8217;t need to be a cricket fan for this one!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Melvin the dragon at the cricket by cricketjeff on September 20, 2007.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved Melvin the Dragon is watching the cricket Martha&#8217;s along for the ride Melvin his hoping they won&#8217;t lose a wicket Martha&#8217;s asleep by his side Melvin in dreams would open the batting Martha goes shopping for shoes [&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-1919","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1919","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=1919"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1919\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9589,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1919\/revisions\/9589"}],"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=1919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}