{"id":2018,"date":"2023-11-26T20:31:54","date_gmt":"2023-11-26T20:31:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=2018"},"modified":"2023-11-28T19:40:40","modified_gmt":"2023-11-28T19:40:40","slug":"hippety-skippety","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/h-poems\/hippety-skippety\/","title":{"rendered":"Hippety Skippety!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Hippety Skippety!<br \/>\nby cricketjeff on November 1, 2007.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved<br \/>\nStriding out along my way<br \/>\nI saw a friend and said good-day<br \/>\nAnd so the car-crash missed me<\/p>\n<p>I was late so had a jog<br \/>\nBut had to stop to miss a dog<br \/>\nAnd a lovely lady kissed me<\/p>\n<p>I missed my turning by the lake<br \/>\nA car fell in it by mistake<br \/>\nI didn&#8217;t get a splash<\/p>\n<p>I stopped to buy a cup of tea<br \/>\nAnd entered in the lottery<br \/>\nAnd won a stack of cash<\/p>\n<p>Your life you&#8217;ll find you can enhance<br \/>\nIf you follow every lucky chance<br \/>\nThat stops you in your tracks<\/p>\n<p>There is a problem with this rule<br \/>\nThat may befall a luckless fool<br \/>\nThese are very rare attacks!<br \/>\n Author notes<br \/>\nIllustrating serendipity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hippety Skippety! by cricketjeff on November 1, 2007.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved Striding out along my way I saw a friend and said good-day And so the car-crash missed me I was late so had a jog But had to stop to miss a dog And a lovely lady kissed me I missed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":9706,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2018","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2018","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=2018"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2018\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9490,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2018\/revisions\/9490"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9706"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}