{"id":2142,"date":"2023-11-26T20:31:35","date_gmt":"2023-11-26T20:31:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=2142"},"modified":"2023-11-28T23:09:03","modified_gmt":"2023-11-28T23:09:03","slug":"the-return-of-the-duck","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/the-poems\/the-return-of-the-duck\/","title":{"rendered":"The return of the duck"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> The return of the duck<br \/>\nby cricketjeff on December 8, 2007.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved<br \/>\nThe duck who used to come to my door<br \/>\nFor cake and bread and so much more<br \/>\nHas started demanding so many new things<br \/>\nTo feather his nest and pamper his wings<br \/>\nHe won&#8217;t sleep on leaves or grasses or sticks<br \/>\nA small canvas hammock he asked me to fix!<br \/>\nHe doesn&#8217;t like rain so he asked for a roof<br \/>\nMade from finest materials, quite weather proof<br \/>\nA night light to read by, a colour TV<br \/>\nAnd all of these things will be paid for by me<br \/>\nBooks from the library, newspapers too<br \/>\nWhen a duck gets demanding, well what can you do?<br \/>\nThe children all love him, he&#8217;s famous for miles<br \/>\nAnybody who knows him, just sees him and smiles<br \/>\nThey all love my duck and they&#8217;re glad he&#8217;s around<br \/>\nAnd they&#8217;re all of them glad that it&#8217;s not them he found!<br \/>\n Author notes<br \/>\nThe duck at the door was the subject of a previous poem of mine, he is quite a<br \/>\ncharacter!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The return of the duck by cricketjeff on December 8, 2007.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved The duck who used to come to my door For cake and bread and so much more Has started demanding so many new things To feather his nest and pamper his wings He won&#8217;t sleep on leaves or [&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-2142","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2142","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=2142"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2142\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9366,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2142\/revisions\/9366"}],"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=2142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}