{"id":3599,"date":"2023-11-26T20:27:32","date_gmt":"2023-11-26T20:27:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=3599"},"modified":"2023-11-28T23:04:45","modified_gmt":"2023-11-28T23:04:45","slug":"the-championship","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/the-poems\/the-championship\/","title":{"rendered":"The championship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> The championship<br \/>\nby cricketjeff on February 10, 2009.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved<br \/>\nThe Snaggleduff of Bondnecray<br \/>\nWhom all of you have met before<br \/>\nIs off to spend the day at play<br \/>\nAt waggledoor<\/p>\n<p>His friends have brought the oberdares<br \/>\nAnd he himself the windles<br \/>\nThey&#8217;re busy painting arfasquares<br \/>\nAnd finding spindles<\/p>\n<p>The game begins at five to ten<br \/>\nWith Snaggle facing Joe<br \/>\nThen Mr Moogle tries again<br \/>\nTo have a go<\/p>\n<p>He flobberdops the upper boot<br \/>\nAnd quite downplays the orgle<br \/>\nBut after that he tries to shoot<br \/>\nAnd score a norgle<\/p>\n<p>The tournament is building fast<br \/>\nA champion must soon be crowned<br \/>\nThe Oojit brothers play at last<br \/>\nTheir hopes are drowned<\/p>\n<p>They add the scores and Snaggle wins<br \/>\nThe Champion of Bondnecray<br \/>\nAnd so the bonnywift begins<br \/>\nA perfect day<\/p>\n<p> Author notes<br \/>\nI have kept most of my poem to simple common words to highlight my inexcusable<br \/>\nmaking up of the word &#8220;bonnywift&#8221;, a bonnywift is a joyous celebration of<br \/>\nsporting prowess where bortleberry juice and onmin cakes are eaten in large<br \/>\nnumber while loud music is played on bonnyphones and umdoopwifts for everyone<br \/>\nto dance to.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The championship by cricketjeff on February 10, 2009.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved The Snaggleduff of Bondnecray Whom all of you have met before Is off to spend the day at play At waggledoor His friends have brought the oberdares And he himself the windles They&#8217;re busy painting arfasquares And finding spindles The game [&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-3599","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3599","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=3599"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3599\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7908,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3599\/revisions\/7908"}],"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=3599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}