{"id":3397,"date":"2023-11-26T20:27:35","date_gmt":"2023-11-26T20:27:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=3397"},"modified":"2023-11-28T19:40:40","modified_gmt":"2023-11-28T19:40:40","slug":"horse-sense-sonnet","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/h-poems\/horse-sense-sonnet\/","title":{"rendered":"Horse sense sonnet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Horse sense sonnet<br \/>\nby cricketjeff on November 18, 2008.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved<br \/>\nI never saw a horse put on a bet<br \/>\nThough many men lose everything they own<br \/>\nOn horses who then cater home alone<br \/>\nOr stop half way to try to see the vet<br \/>\nYou never see a horse cry with regret<br \/>\nThe man he backed is limping round the bends<br \/>\nIs too intent on chatting to his friends<br \/>\nIs worse than any nag he ever met<\/p>\n<p>The racecourse fills with ladies dressed to kill<br \/>\nWith men who know their prospects could be great<br \/>\nThe racing&#8217;s there to add a little thrill<br \/>\nWhile canop\u00e9s are eaten from the plate<br \/>\nThe horses will be concentrating still<br \/>\nThey know the best of them are sure to mate!<br \/>\n Author notes<br \/>\nOption 1: Quote by W.C. Fields. Be inspired by the words of this great<br \/>\ncomedian.<\/p>\n<p>Horse sense is the thing a horse has which keeps it from betting on people.<\/p>\n<p>A Petrachan sonnet, rhyme scheme abbaabba cdcdcd<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Horse sense sonnet by cricketjeff on November 18, 2008.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved I never saw a horse put on a bet Though many men lose everything they own On horses who then cater home alone Or stop half way to try to see the vet You never see a horse cry with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":9706,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-3397","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3397","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=3397"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3397\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8111,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3397\/revisions\/8111"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9706"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}