{"id":2041,"date":"2023-11-26T20:31:54","date_gmt":"2023-11-26T20:31:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=2041"},"modified":"2023-11-28T23:04:46","modified_gmt":"2023-11-28T23:04:46","slug":"the-greater-mcgonagall-revisits-the-tay","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/the-poems\/the-greater-mcgonagall-revisits-the-tay\/","title":{"rendered":"The greater McGonagall revisits the Tay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> The greater McGonagall revisits the Tay<br \/>\nby cricketjeff on November 8, 2007.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved<br \/>\nThe Silv&#8217;ry Tay, &#8216;neath Railway<br \/>\nWas filled with train one stormy day<br \/>\nTragic loss, of worker and boss<br \/>\nWhen the train the bridge did toss<br \/>\nAll the land, the small and grand<br \/>\nJust never could quite understand<br \/>\nHow bridge so strong, and fine and long<br \/>\nCould have got things oh so wrong<br \/>\nOn darkest night, a fearful sight<br \/>\nAs all the passengers met their plight<br \/>\nOur glorious Queen, was not serene<br \/>\nShe thought the weather awful mean<br \/>\nSo this poet fine, thought he&#8217;d pen a line<br \/>\nAnd its brilliance is all mine<br \/>\nTo remind us all what can befall<br \/>\nA train on a bridge in a storm not small.<br \/>\n Author notes<br \/>\nComment as much or as little as you like.<br \/>\nPoem for a contest in tribute to one of the worst poets of all time, The Great<br \/>\nMcGonagall<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The greater McGonagall revisits the Tay by cricketjeff on November 8, 2007.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved The Silv&#8217;ry Tay, &#8216;neath Railway Was filled with train one stormy day Tragic loss, of worker and boss When the train the bridge did toss All the land, the small and grand Just never could quite understand [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":9742,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2041","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2041","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=2041"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2041\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9466,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2041\/revisions\/9466"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}