{"id":3717,"date":"2023-11-26T20:27:11","date_gmt":"2023-11-26T20:27:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=3717"},"modified":"2023-11-27T22:45:12","modified_gmt":"2023-11-27T22:45:12","slug":"battledress","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/b-poems\/battledress\/","title":{"rendered":"Battledress"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Battledress<br \/>\nby cricketjeff on March 21, 2009.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved<br \/>\nTo keep them warm throughout the storm<br \/>\nThe troops perform in uniform<br \/>\nThey are not paid to be displayed<br \/>\nSo don&#8217;t parade as they were made<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not aware of anywhere<br \/>\nTroops bash the square while they are bare<br \/>\nThe squaddies said they&#8217;d drop down dead<br \/>\nIf they were led while clothes were shed<\/p>\n<p>Our tars aren&#8217;t free to set to sea<br \/>\nWith &#8220;he or she&#8221; shown brazenly<br \/>\nNo pilots fly where every eye<br \/>\nCan freely spy why they are shy<\/p>\n<p>So don&#8217;t be fools obey the rules<br \/>\nUnlike the mules who show their tools<br \/>\nObserve the norm when you perform<br \/>\nUnless it&#8217;s warm wear uniform!<br \/>\n Author notes<br \/>\nI saw a contest to write a poem using a seven letter word beginning with the<br \/>\nletter U and a voice in my head sung this to me. However each word could only<br \/>\nbe used once and uniform was taken &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Battledress by cricketjeff on March 21, 2009.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved To keep them warm throughout the storm The troops perform in uniform They are not paid to be displayed So don&#8217;t parade as they were made I&#8217;m not aware of anywhere Troops bash the square while they are bare The squaddies said [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":9694,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-3717","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3717","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=3717"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3717\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7790,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3717\/revisions\/7790"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}