{"id":3358,"date":"2023-11-26T20:27:36","date_gmt":"2023-11-26T20:27:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=3358"},"modified":"2023-11-27T22:45:12","modified_gmt":"2023-11-27T22:45:12","slug":"beach-party","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/b-poems\/beach-party\/","title":{"rendered":"Beach Party"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Beach Party<br \/>\nby cricketjeff on November 2, 2008.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved<br \/>\nThere&#8217;s Earth to Jim, he&#8217;s easy to spot<br \/>\nHis two heads mark him out<br \/>\nBoth small and green and talking a lot<br \/>\n(Well one was inclined to shout)<\/p>\n<p>The crowd around are splitting their sides<br \/>\nThey can&#8217;t believe a word<br \/>\nThe tales he tells of where he resides<br \/>\nAre really quite absurd<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re on the beach where brandy&#8217;s in flow<br \/>\nThe tide is on the turn<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s late at night but no-one will go<br \/>\nThere&#8217;s much to much to learn<\/p>\n<p>Amera&#8217;s next her army of Elves<br \/>\nAre left outside the gate<br \/>\nThey shouldn&#8217;t be here (invited themselves)<br \/>\nAnd anyway they&#8217;re late<\/p>\n<p>The Queen herself is hitting the drink<br \/>\nAnd signing books in rhyme<br \/>\nShe&#8217;s on the prowl and tipping the wink<br \/>\nTo Mairi all the time<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re by the sea and drinking a bit<br \/>\nThe breeze is rather warm<br \/>\nThe neighbours will be having a fit<br \/>\nAs soon as I perform<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s Mairi bheag she&#8217;s playing the spoons<br \/>\nAnd quoting Celtic verse<br \/>\nThe way she&#8217;s scoffing the macaroons<br \/>\nShe&#8217;ll soon be feeling worse<\/p>\n<p>She&#8217;s on the way to see N&#8217;awlins<br \/>\nBut couldn&#8217;t miss this do<br \/>\nShe&#8217;s pleased to see the other &#8220;call-ins&#8221;<br \/>\nBut&#8217;s waiting here for you<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re winding down the evening&#8217;s done<br \/>\nAnd Lane is saying &#8220;bye&#8221;<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s been a blast we&#8217;ve all had fun<br \/>\nBut now we have to fly!<\/p>\n<p> Author notes<br \/>\nI&#8217;m only allowed three!!! No fair !<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beach Party by cricketjeff on November 2, 2008.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved There&#8217;s Earth to Jim, he&#8217;s easy to spot His two heads mark him out Both small and green and talking a lot (Well one was inclined to shout) The crowd around are splitting their sides They can&#8217;t believe a word The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":9694,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-3358","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3358","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=3358"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3358\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8150,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3358\/revisions\/8150"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}