{"id":2380,"date":"2023-11-26T20:31:31","date_gmt":"2023-11-26T20:31:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=2380"},"modified":"2023-11-28T23:09:03","modified_gmt":"2023-11-28T23:09:03","slug":"the-special-gift","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/the-poems\/the-special-gift\/","title":{"rendered":"The special gift"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> The special gift<br \/>\nby cricketjeff on February 5, 2008.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved<br \/>\nYou stand at the back of the queue<br \/>\nOthers were there before you<br \/>\nWhat in the world can you do<br \/>\nThere are three doughnuts left<\/p>\n<p>That lady just wants a white tin<br \/>\nAnd please could they slice it quite thin<br \/>\nMaybe I&#8217;m going to win<br \/>\nStill three doughnuts left<\/p>\n<p>Oh no the next bloke is quite round<br \/>\nI&#8217;m sure he&#8217;ll be standing his ground<br \/>\nAnd eating the doughnuts I&#8217;ve found<br \/>\nOnly three doughnuts left!!<\/p>\n<p>Thank goodness he wanted a bun<br \/>\nWith hundreds and thousands for fun<br \/>\n(Amazing he only bought one!)<br \/>\nAll three doughnuts left<\/p>\n<p>The mum with the children is next<br \/>\nIt appears that she&#8217;s getting quite vexed<br \/>\nHer parenting instincts are flexed<br \/>\nJust two doughnuts left!<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s only one person ahead<br \/>\nPlease say he&#8217;s ordering bread<br \/>\nI wish that he&#8217;s just drop down dead!<br \/>\nNow one doughnut left.<\/p>\n<p>And now I &#8216;m the head of the queue<br \/>\nMy insides are screaming out phewwwwww!<br \/>\nI&#8217;ve bought the last doughnut for you!<br \/>\nThere are no doughnuts left<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The special gift by cricketjeff on February 5, 2008.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved You stand at the back of the queue Others were there before you What in the world can you do There are three doughnuts left That lady just wants a white tin And please could they slice it quite thin [&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-2380","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2380","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=2380"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2380\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9128,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2380\/revisions\/9128"}],"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=2380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}