{"id":2206,"date":"2023-11-26T20:31:34","date_gmt":"2023-11-26T20:31:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=2206"},"modified":"2023-11-28T22:00:01","modified_gmt":"2023-11-28T22:00:01","slug":"im-british","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/i-poems\/im-british\/","title":{"rendered":"I\\&#8217;m British"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> I&#8217;m British<br \/>\nby cricketjeff on December 28, 2007.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved<br \/>\nWhat does it mean to be British<br \/>\nA nation whose people are fit-ish<br \/>\nThe country from Europe that&#8217;s split-ish<br \/>\nOh it&#8217;s great to be a Brit<\/p>\n<p>By British of course I mean English<br \/>\nThe idea makes me all Tinglish<br \/>\nAnd wish once again I was singl-ish<br \/>\nAnd seeking an English girl<\/p>\n<p>By English I mean from the smoke<br \/>\nYou see I&#8217;m a London bloke<br \/>\nThough Ken Livingstone makes me choke<br \/>\nLondon&#8217;s the city for me<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re British it means that the Yanks<br \/>\nShould all of them bow down in thanks<br \/>\n(they won&#8217;t &#8217;cause they&#8217;re crabby old cranks)<br \/>\nThe British are better by far<\/p>\n<p>The Spanish, the Germans the French<br \/>\nWill have to admit with a wrench<br \/>\nThey aren&#8217;t worth a broken park bench<br \/>\nThe Continents not very nice<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m British, I&#8217;m proud, don&#8217;t know why<br \/>\nBut I know I don&#8217;t need to be shy<br \/>\nI can look other folk in the eye<br \/>\nBecause I&#8217;m British!<br \/>\n Author notes<br \/>\nJust a bit of fun before bedtime!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m British by cricketjeff on December 28, 2007.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved What does it mean to be British A nation whose people are fit-ish The country from Europe that&#8217;s split-ish Oh it&#8217;s great to be a Brit By British of course I mean English The idea makes me all Tinglish And wish [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":9718,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2206","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2206","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=2206"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2206\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9302,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2206\/revisions\/9302"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}