{"id":4082,"date":"2023-11-26T20:27:06","date_gmt":"2023-11-26T20:27:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=4082"},"modified":"2023-11-28T22:50:49","modified_gmt":"2023-11-28T22:50:49","slug":"old-prof-mcbeal","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/o-poems\/old-prof-mcbeal\/","title":{"rendered":"Old Prof McBeal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Old Prof McBeal<br \/>\nby cricketjeff on August 24, 2009.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved<br \/>\n[Posts%20by%20cricketjeff%202_files\/295.html]<\/p>\n<p>In Umbleania-by-the-Sea<br \/>\nThere&#8217;s lots of archaeology<br \/>\nWhen stone aged men still walked around<br \/>\nThey left the items we have found<br \/>\nThe other day old Prof McBeal<br \/>\nDug up a rather large stone wheel<\/p>\n<p>His colleague Madge assumed her part<br \/>\nAnd dug him up a concrete cart<br \/>\nTheir students Pete and Anne deBorse<br \/>\nThen found a massive china horse<br \/>\nIt seems they&#8217;ve found an ancient street<br \/>\nWith all the traffic left complete<\/p>\n<p>More digging to the left and right<br \/>\nThey found the world&#8217;s first traffic light<br \/>\nThey now know why the driver&#8217;s dead<br \/>\nThat traffic light&#8217;s still stuck on red<br \/>\nFor years he waited for a green<br \/>\nBut no relief was ever seen<\/p>\n<p>Now when they change he&#8217;ll never see &#8217;em<br \/>\nThey&#8217;re not kept in the same museum<br \/>\nThe Prof and team still dig all day<br \/>\nTo find the past that&#8217;s gone away<br \/>\nThey&#8217;re sure to find more history<br \/>\nIn Umbleania-by-the-Sea<\/p>\n<p> Author notes<br \/>\nI spoke to Prof McBeal about his findings, he and Madge believe these artifacts<br \/>\nmay be as much as fifty years old.<br \/>\nThe China horse hauled concrete cart is still a popular means of transport<br \/>\nalong the twisty streets of Upperdownland one of Umbleania&#8217;s less modern<br \/>\nvillages.<\/p>\n<p>Why not go to see for yourself. you can go by submarine from Omaha Nebraska any<br \/>\nThursday, or windsurf to one of the neighbouring countries, like Outer Mongolia<br \/>\nor Paraguay.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Old Prof McBeal by cricketjeff on August 24, 2009.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved [Posts%20by%20cricketjeff%202_files\/295.html] In Umbleania-by-the-Sea There&#8217;s lots of archaeology When stone aged men still walked around They left the items we have found The other day old Prof McBeal Dug up a rather large stone wheel His colleague Madge assumed her part [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":9732,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-4082","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4082","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=4082"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4082\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7424,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4082\/revisions\/7424"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}