{"id":3414,"date":"2023-11-26T20:27:35","date_gmt":"2023-11-26T20:27:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=3414"},"modified":"2023-11-28T22:45:34","modified_gmt":"2023-11-28T22:45:34","slug":"meeting-manners","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/m-poems\/meeting-manners\/","title":{"rendered":"Meeting manners"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Meeting manners<br \/>\nby cricketjeff on November 24, 2008.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved<br \/>\nI never fall asleep in class<br \/>\nI never go to school<br \/>\nI knew such times but let them pass<br \/>\nI&#8217;ve aged as is the rule<br \/>\nBut though I&#8217;m not as young as you<br \/>\nSome things remain the same<br \/>\nA daytime nap is nothing new<br \/>\nThere&#8217;s no-one else to blame<br \/>\nI fall asleep in meetings<br \/>\nI do it all the time<br \/>\nI listen to the bleatings<br \/>\nIs snoring such a crime?<\/p>\n<p>I fall asleep in baths most days<br \/>\nWhere else do people sleep?<br \/>\nThat I don&#8217;t drown may yet amaze<br \/>\nI keep them not too deep<br \/>\nI sometimes nod off on the train<br \/>\nI&#8217;ve not yet missed the stop<br \/>\nTo stay away is quite a strain<br \/>\nI&#8217;d say that I&#8217;m a flop<br \/>\nI always sleep in meetings<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s just the thing I do<br \/>\nCan&#8217;t stay awake through bleatings<br \/>\nFrom people just like you<\/p>\n<p>I better finish writing this<br \/>\nBecause I&#8217;m in my chair<br \/>\nAnd dozing here is perfect bliss<br \/>\nMuch better than elsewhere<br \/>\nSo why is it I go to bed<br \/>\nAnd cannot sleep a wink<br \/>\nI must be going off my head<br \/>\nI think I&#8217;ll turn to drink<br \/>\nSo what! I sleep in meetings!<br \/>\nWhy should you make a fuss<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s all your dreadful bleatings<br \/>\nThat bores the pants off us!!!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meeting manners by cricketjeff on November 24, 2008.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved I never fall asleep in class I never go to school I knew such times but let them pass I&#8217;ve aged as is the rule But though I&#8217;m not as young as you Some things remain the same A daytime nap [&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-3414","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3414","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=3414"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3414\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8093,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3414\/revisions\/8093"}],"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=3414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}