{"id":1970,"date":"2023-11-26T20:31:55","date_gmt":"2023-11-26T20:31:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=1970"},"modified":"2023-11-28T22:45:34","modified_gmt":"2023-11-28T22:45:34","slug":"melvin-the-babysitter","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/m-poems\/melvin-the-babysitter\/","title":{"rendered":"Melvin the babysitter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Melvin the babysitter<br \/>\nby cricketjeff on October 9, 2007.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved<br \/>\nChian\u00e9 the springbok is practicing pronking<br \/>\nGilbert the goose is busy with honking<br \/>\nJack who&#8217;s a tiger, is roaring at bears<br \/>\nAnd those two silly snakes are sliding down stairs<\/p>\n<p>Melvin is looking at the crowd, very glum<br \/>\nAnd wonders when they&#8217;ll go back home to each mum<br \/>\nMartha has taken the mums for a shop<br \/>\nMelvin-the-babysitter&#8217;s not too much cop!<\/p>\n<p>But Melvin has though of a plan to get peace<br \/>\nHe&#8217;ll take them all flying, with the help of his niece<br \/>\nBut Melvin&#8217;s short sighted, and Paula is too<br \/>\nFlying indoors, not the best thing to do!<\/p>\n<p>So when all the ladies get home rather late<br \/>\nThe house, where they left them, is in quite a state!<br \/>\nAnd there in a heap all asleep on the floor<br \/>\nAre the noisy young children, with Melvin, and a snore!<br \/>\n Author notes<br \/>\nOption 4 for this contest.<br \/>\nFor reference purposes Melvin is a dragon who appears quite regularly in my<br \/>\npoems, all of the others mentioned do too, in particular Jack the Tiger and<br \/>\nChian\u00e9 the Springbok who are alter-egos of children of friends.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Melvin the babysitter by cricketjeff on October 9, 2007.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved Chian\u00e9 the springbok is practicing pronking Gilbert the goose is busy with honking Jack who&#8217;s a tiger, is roaring at bears And those two silly snakes are sliding down stairs Melvin is looking at the crowd, very glum And wonders [&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-1970","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1970","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=1970"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1970\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9538,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1970\/revisions\/9538"}],"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=1970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}