{"id":2192,"date":"2023-11-26T20:31:34","date_gmt":"2023-11-26T20:31:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=2192"},"modified":"2023-11-28T23:06:35","modified_gmt":"2023-11-28T23:06:35","slug":"the-production-line","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/the-poems\/the-production-line\/","title":{"rendered":"The production line"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> The production line<br \/>\nby cricketjeff on December 23, 2007.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved<br \/>\nEreward the smallest elf<br \/>\nMust paint the soldiers on this shelf<br \/>\nEvery individual face<br \/>\nHas expression fixed in place<\/p>\n<p>The tiny soldiers in a crush<br \/>\nWait for Ereward&#8217;s finest brush<br \/>\nUniforms and rifles too<br \/>\nEven laces on each shoe<\/p>\n<p>A platoon sent to each small boy<br \/>\nTo be this Christmas&#8217;s finest toy<br \/>\nThe shelf below has cars and trains<br \/>\nA speciality it seems of Jayne&#8217;s<\/p>\n<p>She makes sure each will run for miles<br \/>\nTo give new owners, year long smiles<br \/>\nHer mother meanwhile makes the sweets<br \/>\nEach stocking must be crammed with treats<\/p>\n<p>Noisy trumpets, Ernest made<br \/>\nTuned so each will make the grade<br \/>\nPongo&#8217;s making drums and stuff<br \/>\nThen testing they are loud enough<\/p>\n<p>Dolls with hair and clothes by Ruth<br \/>\n(Designer &#8220;style&#8221; to tell the truth)<br \/>\nBalls and skittles, paints and pens<br \/>\nMade next downstairs by young Hortense<\/p>\n<p>The deadline closes, Christmas eve<br \/>\nWhen the boss prepares to leave<br \/>\nFather Christmas on his sleigh<br \/>\nHas work to do for Christmas day<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The production line by cricketjeff on December 23, 2007.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved Ereward the smallest elf Must paint the soldiers on this shelf Every individual face Has expression fixed in place The tiny soldiers in a crush Wait for Ereward&#8217;s finest brush Uniforms and rifles too Even laces on each shoe A [&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-2192","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2192","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=2192"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2192\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9316,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2192\/revisions\/9316"}],"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=2192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}