{"id":2805,"date":"2023-11-26T20:28:12","date_gmt":"2023-11-26T20:28:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=2805"},"modified":"2023-11-28T22:53:32","modified_gmt":"2023-11-28T22:53:32","slug":"pete-the-tiny-dragon","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/p-poems\/pete-the-tiny-dragon\/","title":{"rendered":"Pete the tiny dragon!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Pete the tiny dragon!<br \/>\nby cricketjeff on June 2, 2008.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved<br \/>\nNow Marvin&#8217;s baby brother Pete<br \/>\nIs naughty as you know<br \/>\nAlthough you&#8217;d think he was so sweet<br \/>\nHe&#8217;s trouble on the go<\/p>\n<p>So very small just pocket sized<br \/>\nAnd very shiny blue<br \/>\nTo hear him speak you&#8217;d be surprised<br \/>\nHe sounds a lot like you<\/p>\n<p>He has a friend a naughty elf<br \/>\nWho disappears on sight<br \/>\nI&#8217;ve never met the elf myself<br \/>\nBut Pete&#8217;s here every night<\/p>\n<p>He filled up Marvin&#8217;s shoes with soup<br \/>\nThat&#8217;s half a can in each<br \/>\nWith Marvin walking round in gloop<br \/>\nPete stayed well out of reach!<\/p>\n<p>And now he&#8217;s found a brand new trick<br \/>\nA whole new sort of tease<br \/>\nYou must take care when you are sick<br \/>\nDon&#8217;t do a dragon sneeze!<\/p>\n<p>Pete sprinkled pepper on his nose<br \/>\nHis dragon&#8217;s eyes turned red<br \/>\nA sheet of flame, the whole room glows<br \/>\nA big grin on his head!<\/p>\n<p>The garden shed and next door&#8217;s fence<br \/>\nAre now just piles of ash<br \/>\nAllowance stopped for this offence<br \/>\nPete&#8217;s running out of cash<\/p>\n<p>So now to earn a little more<br \/>\nPete&#8217;s working up a storm<br \/>\nEach winter day goes door to door<br \/>\nAnd sneezes people warm!!!<\/p>\n<p> Author notes<br \/>\nMArvin is a friend of mine, he is a decidedly friendly slightly overweight blue<br \/>\ndragon. His girlfriend Martha (also a dragon but she can change colour, most<br \/>\nlady dragons can you know) plays cricket for England.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pete the tiny dragon! by cricketjeff on June 2, 2008.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved Now Marvin&#8217;s baby brother Pete Is naughty as you know Although you&#8217;d think he was so sweet He&#8217;s trouble on the go So very small just pocket sized And very shiny blue To hear him speak you&#8217;d be surprised [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":9734,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2805","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2805","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=2805"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2805\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8704,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2805\/revisions\/8704"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}