{"id":3396,"date":"2023-11-26T20:27:35","date_gmt":"2023-11-26T20:27:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=3396"},"modified":"2023-11-28T22:45:35","modified_gmt":"2023-11-28T22:45:35","slug":"monty-memories","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/m-poems\/monty-memories\/","title":{"rendered":"Monty Memories"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Monty Memories<br \/>\nby cricketjeff on November 18, 2008.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved<br \/>\nThe North face of the Kilburn Road<br \/>\nHas never once been climbed<br \/>\nSo we attacked the motherload<br \/>\nEquipment fully primed<\/p>\n<p>The Post-office was by base camp<br \/>\nA bus stop belay point<br \/>\nWe jammed out to the first street lamp<br \/>\nOur nerves by now disjoint<\/p>\n<p>The final push past Smiths and Boots<br \/>\nAvoided all the feet<br \/>\nOf men in jeans or business suits<br \/>\nWho walk, not climb, the Street.<\/p>\n<p>The men who&#8217;re walking by us<br \/>\nDon&#8217;t move with even grace<br \/>\nIt seems they&#8217;re there to try us<br \/>\nTo keep a civil face<\/p>\n<p>With loopy swirls of shinsquawks<br \/>\nA hop and then a skip<br \/>\nThe Ministry of Silly Walks<br \/>\nIs really rather hip<\/p>\n<p>The Spanish Inquisition<br \/>\nAre passing at a jog<br \/>\nFred Gumby&#8217;s in position<br \/>\nFor falling off a log<\/p>\n<p>The Lumberjack who felled it<br \/>\nIn bra and spiky heels<br \/>\nHas seriously repelled it<br \/>\nWe all know how he feels<\/p>\n<p>And just as it is ending<br \/>\nA giant foot comes down<br \/>\nAlas it&#8217;s well past mending<br \/>\nAnd Python&#8217;s out of town<\/p>\n<p> Author notes<br \/>\nWell is it a goer? eh? eh? eh?<br \/>\nknow what I mean eh? eh? eh?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Monty Memories by cricketjeff on November 18, 2008.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved The North face of the Kilburn Road Has never once been climbed So we attacked the motherload Equipment fully primed The Post-office was by base camp A bus stop belay point We jammed out to the first street lamp Our nerves [&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-3396","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3396","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=3396"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3396\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8112,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3396\/revisions\/8112"}],"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=3396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}