{"id":2486,"date":"2023-11-26T20:31:30","date_gmt":"2023-11-26T20:31:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=2486"},"modified":"2023-11-28T23:04:45","modified_gmt":"2023-11-28T23:04:45","slug":"the-bishop-of-rich-rhyme","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/the-poems\/the-bishop-of-rich-rhyme\/","title":{"rendered":"The Bishop of rich rhyme"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> The Bishop of rich rhyme<br \/>\nby cricketjeff on March 12, 2008.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved<br \/>\nWhen visiting his see<br \/>\nThe bishop went to see<br \/>\nThe lady known as C<br \/>\nWho always answered si<\/p>\n<p>While she would sit and sew<br \/>\nThis pious so and so<br \/>\nWho had some seeds to sow<br \/>\nWaited til he cried soh!<\/p>\n<p>To get there he always rows<br \/>\nAnd takes with him a rose<br \/>\nThe finest one that rose<br \/>\nAmongst his rows and rows<\/p>\n<p>He does this since he knows<br \/>\nIt will attract her nose<br \/>\nAs she climbs up the knowes<br \/>\nSo he ignores her noes<\/p>\n<p>He always wants to tease<br \/>\nHe takes her out to teas<br \/>\nHe buys her shirts called Ts<br \/>\nThey always hit their tees<\/p>\n<p>When standing for a wee,<br \/>\nThe Bishop knew if we<br \/>\nWould ask if &#8220;it&#8221; was wee&#8230;<br \/>\nHe&#8217;d have to answer &#8220;Oui&#8221;!<\/p>\n<p>All the things to buy<br \/>\nHe&#8217;ll come to by and by<br \/>\nBut unless they&#8217;re straight or bi<br \/>\nTo ladies he says bye!<\/p>\n<p> Author notes<br \/>\nI pulled a friend up on a rich rhyme, this sort of happened afterwards&#8230;<br \/>\nAll the rhyme words are perfect homophones but are all different words.<\/p>\n<p>One stanza is down to Mairi_bheag see if you can spot which.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Bishop of rich rhyme by cricketjeff on March 12, 2008.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved When visiting his see The bishop went to see The lady known as C Who always answered si While she would sit and sew This pious so and so Who had some seeds to sow Waited til he [&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-2486","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2486","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=2486"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2486\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9021,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2486\/revisions\/9021"}],"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=2486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}