{"id":2299,"date":"2023-11-26T20:31:33","date_gmt":"2023-11-26T20:31:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=2299"},"modified":"2023-11-28T22:59:00","modified_gmt":"2023-11-28T22:59:00","slug":"snaggleduffs-good-deed","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/s-poems\/snaggleduffs-good-deed\/","title":{"rendered":"Snaggleduff\\&#8217;s good deed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Snaggleduff&#8217;s good deed<br \/>\nby cricketjeff on January 20, 2008.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved<br \/>\nA grumpy looking Father Christmas<br \/>\nIs stuck just outside Bondnecray<br \/>\nHe&#8217;s had a rather heavy landing<br \/>\nLost a runner from his sleigh<\/p>\n<p>Swiftly elves look for assistance<br \/>\nRunning up and running down<br \/>\nSome of them start calling wildly<br \/>\nLoud enough to wake the town<\/p>\n<p>Snaggleduff is sleeping lightly<br \/>\nLike the other girls and boys<br \/>\nCrosses quickly to the window<br \/>\nWho is making all that noise?<\/p>\n<p>Snaggle&#8217;s equal to a crisis<br \/>\nJust like any Snaggleduff<br \/>\nOut the window to the bikeshed<br \/>\nAnd his stock of Snagglestuff<\/p>\n<p>When there&#8217;s snow enough for sledging<br \/>\nOn a tea-tray plays the game<br \/>\nTea trays make such perfect sledges<br \/>\nI expect you&#8217;ve done the same<\/p>\n<p>Grabs some string and large screwdriver<br \/>\nFollows elves to Santa&#8217;s side<br \/>\nWhen things need a bit of bodging<br \/>\nHave a Snaggle on your side<\/p>\n<p>Back in bed our tired out hero<br \/>\nGoes to sleep as fast as wood<br \/>\nNot a sound to wake his Mother<br \/>\nOn Christmas night you must be good<\/p>\n<p>On Christmas morning Mum&#8217;s up early<br \/>\nHas the greatest of all shocks<br \/>\nThere in front of all the presents<br \/>\nIs a giant bright red box<\/p>\n<p>The Snaggleduff can&#8217;t wait for breakfast<br \/>\nI bet it&#8217;s just the same with you<br \/>\nThe Giant present &#8220;Thanks, from Santa&#8221;<br \/>\nA Grand Prix Snaggleboard for two!!!!!<\/p>\n<p> Author notes<br \/>\nBondnecray is not quite like your town, there is only one family of<br \/>\nSnaggleduffs for a start.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Snaggleduff&#8217;s good deed by cricketjeff on January 20, 2008.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved A grumpy looking Father Christmas Is stuck just outside Bondnecray He&#8217;s had a rather heavy landing Lost a runner from his sleigh Swiftly elves look for assistance Running up and running down Some of them start calling wildly Loud enough [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":9740,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2299","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2299","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=2299"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2299\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9208,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2299\/revisions\/9208"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}