{"id":4144,"date":"2023-11-26T20:26:50","date_gmt":"2023-11-26T20:26:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=4144"},"modified":"2023-11-27T22:40:39","modified_gmt":"2023-11-27T22:40:39","slug":"alphabetically-unbelievable","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/a-poems\/alphabetically-unbelievable\/","title":{"rendered":"Alphabetically unbelievable!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Alphabetically unbelievable!<br \/>\nby cricketjeff on September 22, 2009.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved<br \/>\nWhen Adrian the aardvark bounced by billy cans to bed<br \/>\nHe couldn&#8217;t care that catatonics cars got there ahead<br \/>\nThey didn&#8217;t dare deceive the dogs who dragged dolls through the door<br \/>\nAs each and every elephant had eaten eggs before<br \/>\nFive fast and fearsome foxes fainted flat as frangipan<br \/>\nAnd good as geese the golden goats ate greasepaint by the can<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s hard to help a horrid hoop who has a hippos head<br \/>\nSince If it isn&#8217;t igloo-filled it may be ill instead<br \/>\nWhy Joseph jumped on jet-black juice Kentucky can&#8217;t decide<br \/>\nLord Lucan left his lollipop on Mumma moo-cow&#8217;s hide<br \/>\nNo need to nurdle neverminds nor nick a not-a-lot<br \/>\nOld orange opened ostrich oil on Oswald&#8217;s ocelot<br \/>\nPink paper planes put pedicures past poorly purple pings<br \/>\nQuite querulous and quizzical Ruth roared at running rings<br \/>\nSue&#8217;s saintly shoes shone shiningly Toms toes turned turnip green<br \/>\nUncatalogued umbrella plants were varnished to a sheen<br \/>\nWe wept with warbled warthog wheels which wouldn&#8217;t whistle well<br \/>\nAnd xenophobic xanthomas expired before the smell<br \/>\nYet yellow yachts would yodel home to yell the news to me<br \/>\nSo Zebedee the Zulu Bee could zoom the Zuider Zee<\/p>\n<p> Author notes<br \/>\nWrite me a rhyming poem with words you wouldn&#8217;t usually see linked together .<br \/>\nThe poem needs to have a rhythm and flow to it, if it doesn&#8217;t it won&#8217;t win.<br \/>\nYour poem doesn&#8217;t need to make any sense at all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alphabetically unbelievable! by cricketjeff on September 22, 2009.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved When Adrian the aardvark bounced by billy cans to bed He couldn&#8217;t care that catatonics cars got there ahead They didn&#8217;t dare deceive the dogs who dragged dolls through the door As each and every elephant had eaten eggs before Five [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":9692,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-4144","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4144","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=4144"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4144\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7363,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4144\/revisions\/7363"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}