{"id":2167,"date":"2023-11-26T20:31:34","date_gmt":"2023-11-26T20:31:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=2167"},"modified":"2023-11-27T23:13:08","modified_gmt":"2023-11-27T23:13:08","slug":"christmas-crime-ring","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/c-poems\/christmas-crime-ring\/","title":{"rendered":"Christmas crime ring"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Christmas crime ring<br \/>\nby cricketjeff on December 17, 2007.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved<br \/>\nDown the chimney old\u00a0 Santa came crashing<br \/>\nWith a sack full of toys simply smashing<br \/>\nBut it wasn&#8217;t a joke<br \/>\nFor the now broke old bloke<br \/>\nWhose cheques naughty Santa&#8217;s been cashing!<\/p>\n<p>This reckless new style Robin hood<br \/>\nIs held as an icon of good<br \/>\nIt is not right to laud<br \/>\nAn elf guilty of fraud<br \/>\nJust for wearing a fur lined red hood<\/p>\n<p>A grouchy old rabbit &#8220;E. Bunny&#8221;<br \/>\nSays that it should be his money<br \/>\nCandies and sweets<br \/>\nAnd chocolate treats<br \/>\nWould make the whole springtime seem sunny<\/p>\n<p>A fairy who looks for old teeth<br \/>\n(Did she ever visit you Keith?)<br \/>\nSaid if she had the cash<br \/>\nThat she&#8217;s leave a stash<br \/>\nOn each pillow, no better beneath<\/p>\n<p>The judge in the case looked quite stern<br \/>\nSaid that these crooks must all learn<br \/>\nThis isn&#8217;t a fantasy<br \/>\nThe money is Santa&#8217;s see<br \/>\nThe rest of you get out and earn!<br \/>\n Author notes<br \/>\nSanta was found not guilty the man who claimed they were his cheques turned out<br \/>\nto be someone called G.Rinch and the cheques were all planted on Santa.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Christmas crime ring by cricketjeff on December 17, 2007.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved Down the chimney old\u00a0 Santa came crashing With a sack full of toys simply smashing But it wasn&#8217;t a joke For the now broke old bloke Whose cheques naughty Santa&#8217;s been cashing! This reckless new style Robin hood Is held [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":9696,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2167","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2167","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=2167"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2167\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9341,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2167\/revisions\/9341"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}