{"id":3134,"date":"2023-11-26T20:27:53","date_gmt":"2023-11-26T20:27:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=3134"},"modified":"2023-11-28T23:01:30","modified_gmt":"2023-11-28T23:01:30","slug":"the-answer","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/the-poems\/the-answer\/","title":{"rendered":"The Answer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> The Answer<br \/>\nby cricketjeff on August 17, 2008.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved<br \/>\nWhat Humpty was before the fall<br \/>\nAn Easter gift from Auntie Peg<br \/>\nA Bluetit&#8217;s one is very small<br \/>\nI think the answer is an egg<br \/>\n\u00a0 A breakfast treat that&#8217;s served with toast<br \/>\n\u00a0 A chocolate one makes children beg<br \/>\n\u00a0 The layer makes a Sunday roast<br \/>\n\u00a0 I think the answer is an egg<br \/>\nThe riddle is an ancient one<br \/>\nFor answers I won&#8217;t make you beg<br \/>\nI hope you find my poem fun<br \/>\nI think the answer is an egg<br \/>\n\u00a0 What Humpty was before the fall<br \/>\n\u00a0 I think the answer is an egg<\/p>\n<p> Author notes <\/p>\n<p>In marble walls as white as milk<br \/>\nLined with skin as soft as silk<br \/>\nWithin a fountain crystal clear<br \/>\nA golden apple doth appear<br \/>\nNo doors there are to this strong hold<br \/>\nYet thieves break in and steal the gold<\/p>\n<p>A Kyrielle sonnet<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Answer by cricketjeff on August 17, 2008.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved What Humpty was before the fall An Easter gift from Auntie Peg A Bluetit&#8217;s one is very small I think the answer is an egg \u00a0 A breakfast treat that&#8217;s served with toast \u00a0 A chocolate one makes children beg \u00a0 [&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-3134","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3134","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=3134"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3134\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8375,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3134\/revisions\/8375"}],"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=3134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}