{"id":3239,"date":"2023-11-26T20:27:52","date_gmt":"2023-11-26T20:27:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=3239"},"modified":"2023-11-28T23:04:47","modified_gmt":"2023-11-28T23:04:47","slug":"the-mermire","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/the-poems\/the-mermire\/","title":{"rendered":"The Mermire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> The Mermire<br \/>\nby cricketjeff on September 17, 2008.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved<\/p>\n<p>She likes to swim with sharks and killer whales<br \/>\nThe biggest and the fiercest she can find<br \/>\nAnd when she does each fearsome demon pales<br \/>\nThey always know the thought that&#8217;s on her mind<\/p>\n<p>This demon of the deep is not so frail<br \/>\nAlthough on land she feels as soft as silk<br \/>\nHer legs are merged to form a fishy tail<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s seaweed green contrasts with her skin&#8217;s milk<\/p>\n<p>Her teeth are needle points and long as knives<br \/>\nShe&#8217;s faster than a swordfish on the chase<br \/>\nThe denizens of deep will lose their lives<br \/>\nIf they should meet this mermaid face to face!<\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;d never guess the truth above the waves<br \/>\nBut she sends sharks and divers to their graves!<\/p>\n<p> Author notes<br \/>\nThe picture is by Cannonsfire, who appears to have escaped the Mermire!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Mermire by cricketjeff on September 17, 2008.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved She likes to swim with sharks and killer whales The biggest and the fiercest she can find And when she does each fearsome demon pales They always know the thought that&#8217;s on her mind This demon of the deep is not [&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-3239","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3239","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=3239"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3239\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8269,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3239\/revisions\/8269"}],"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=3239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}