{"id":3524,"date":"2023-11-26T20:27:34","date_gmt":"2023-11-26T20:27:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=3524"},"modified":"2023-11-28T23:06:35","modified_gmt":"2023-11-28T23:06:35","slug":"the-postman-sings-it-twice","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/the-poems\/the-postman-sings-it-twice\/","title":{"rendered":"The Postman Sings it Twice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> The Postman Sings it Twice<br \/>\nby cricketjeff on January 13, 2009.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved<br \/>\nAt six each day to earn his pay<br \/>\nSet out to do his round<br \/>\nKnew what to say along the way<br \/>\nTo everyone he found<\/p>\n<p>The sturdy locks of pillar box<br \/>\nSuccumb to bunch of keys<br \/>\nThen sudden shocks when postman knocks<br \/>\n&#8220;That&#8217;s four pence extra please&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He thought he&#8217;d find the daily grind<br \/>\nWas just too much to take<br \/>\nThe jobs unkind so he&#8217;s resigned<br \/>\nWas this a big mistake?<\/p>\n<p>Could he go far, no not by car<br \/>\nBut singing songs he&#8217;d write<br \/>\nA superstar with his guitar<br \/>\nIf he&#8217;s addressed it right<\/p>\n<p>The postman&#8217;s song will bowl along<br \/>\nLike riding on a bike<br \/>\nHis voice so strong and like a gong<br \/>\nHe&#8217;ll never need a mike<\/p>\n<p>He sings the tale of morning mail<br \/>\nOf ladies barely dressed<br \/>\nOf men so pale from too much ale<br \/>\nTheir walk to work is stressed<\/p>\n<p>His number one a song begun<br \/>\nWhile walking door to door<br \/>\nIs lots of fun and clearly spun<br \/>\nFrom some first class amour<\/p>\n<p>And now his post is quite the most<br \/>\nOf any on the round<br \/>\nHe loves to boast he is the toast<br \/>\nOf critics quite profound<\/p>\n<p>He has a voice that&#8217;s a Rolls Royce<br \/>\nIn fact it&#8217;s very nice<br \/>\nEach lady&#8217;s choice makes him rejoice<br \/>\nThe postman sings it twice!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Postman Sings it Twice by cricketjeff on January 13, 2009.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved At six each day to earn his pay Set out to do his round Knew what to say along the way To everyone he found The sturdy locks of pillar box Succumb to bunch of keys Then sudden [&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-3524","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3524","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=3524"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3524\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7983,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3524\/revisions\/7983"}],"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=3524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}