{"id":2897,"date":"2023-11-26T20:28:11","date_gmt":"2023-11-26T20:28:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=2897"},"modified":"2023-11-28T22:45:35","modified_gmt":"2023-11-28T22:45:35","slug":"my-friend-pats-cat","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/m-poems\/my-friend-pats-cat\/","title":{"rendered":"My friend Pat\\&#8217;s cat!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> My friend Pat&#8217;s cat!<br \/>\nby cricketjeff on June 22, 2008.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved<br \/>\nMy friend Pat<br \/>\nHas bought a cat<br \/>\nWho looks just like<br \/>\nA sheepskin mat<\/p>\n<p>Walk in the door<br \/>\nAnd on the floor<br \/>\nThis big fat cat<br \/>\nWill stretch a paw<\/p>\n<p>He likes to eat<br \/>\nA lot of meat<br \/>\nAll red and raw<br \/>\nThen licks his feet<\/p>\n<p>He never moves<br \/>\nJust disapproves<br \/>\nOf food that sweet<br \/>\nOr jazz that grooves<\/p>\n<p>The flat&#8217;s too small<br \/>\nHe fills it all<br \/>\nAnd this just proves<br \/>\nNo-one will call<\/p>\n<p>And all Pat&#8217;s friends<br \/>\nAre at wits ends<br \/>\nFriendships all stall<br \/>\nAt lets pretends<\/p>\n<p>It is no use<br \/>\nThey make excuse<br \/>\n&#8220;I&#8217;ve got the bends&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;The bull got loose&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>They&#8217;ll stay away<br \/>\nThe wisest say<br \/>\nThat Pat&#8217;s new &#8220;Moose&#8221;<br \/>\nCan wreck their day<\/p>\n<p>Pat doesn&#8217;t know<br \/>\nThe cat should go<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s friendship&#8217;s noose<br \/>\nIt kills the flow<\/p>\n<p>Pat has a wife<br \/>\nWho hate&#8217;s her life<br \/>\nShe has to show<br \/>\nThe cat means strife<\/p>\n<p>She&#8217;s bought a dog<br \/>\nA greedy hog<br \/>\nThe time is rife<br \/>\nFor chasing Mog<\/p>\n<p>The cat will run<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s back to fun<br \/>\nDrinking Pat&#8217;s grog<br \/>\nFor everyone!!<\/p>\n<p> Author notes<br \/>\nWell it&#8217;s fun!!!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My friend Pat&#8217;s cat! by cricketjeff on June 22, 2008.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved My friend Pat Has bought a cat Who looks just like A sheepskin mat Walk in the door And on the floor This big fat cat Will stretch a paw He likes to eat A lot of meat All [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":9728,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2897","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2897","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=2897"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2897\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8612,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2897\/revisions\/8612"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}