{"id":3896,"date":"2023-11-26T20:27:08","date_gmt":"2023-11-26T20:27:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=3896"},"modified":"2023-11-28T22:47:39","modified_gmt":"2023-11-28T22:47:39","slug":"national-heroes","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/n-poems\/national-heroes\/","title":{"rendered":"National Heroes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> National Heroes<br \/>\nby cricketjeff on June 1, 2009.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved<br \/>\n[Posts%20by%20cricketjeff%202_files\/515.html]<\/p>\n<p>Down in Texas, long ago<br \/>\nWho was at The Alamo?<br \/>\nMexicans were at the gate<br \/>\nFighting for the Lone Star State<\/p>\n<p>Fighting prairie dogs were there<br \/>\nBut few Texans are aware<br \/>\nDavy Crockett&#8217;s right hand men<br \/>\nWere all rodents way back then<\/p>\n<p>Terrified by all that sound<br \/>\nPrairie dogs fought underground<br \/>\nTripping soldiers left and right<br \/>\nTried to sap their will to fight<\/p>\n<p>Some may say they did no good<br \/>\nI think they&#8217;ve misunderstood<br \/>\nYou try staying in control<br \/>\nWhen your foot goes down a hole<\/p>\n<p>Prarie dogs fought all day long<br \/>\nMexicans were just too strong<br \/>\nDavy Crockett sadly died<br \/>\nAll the rodents wept and cried<\/p>\n<p>Texans all stand and salute<br \/>\nFighters who are small and cute<br \/>\nThey were at the Alamo<br \/>\nNational heroes long ago!<\/p>\n<p> Author notes<br \/>\nThe photo is by Thomas Nelson<\/p>\n<p>OK I hope it&#8217;s funny and about the picture, it&#8217;s full of prairie dogs but not<br \/>\nmuch environment, it contains the true (truish, ok total BS!) history of the<br \/>\nAlamo, and it is definitely &#8220;Something Else&#8221;!!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>National Heroes by cricketjeff on June 1, 2009.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved [Posts%20by%20cricketjeff%202_files\/515.html] Down in Texas, long ago Who was at The Alamo? Mexicans were at the gate Fighting for the Lone Star State Fighting prairie dogs were there But few Texans are aware Davy Crockett&#8217;s right hand men Were all rodents way [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":9730,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-3896","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3896","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=3896"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3896\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7613,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3896\/revisions\/7613"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}