{"id":4154,"date":"2023-11-26T20:26:50","date_gmt":"2023-11-26T20:26:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=4154"},"modified":"2023-11-28T23:04:47","modified_gmt":"2023-11-28T23:04:47","slug":"the-oyster-roister","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/the-poems\/the-oyster-roister\/","title":{"rendered":"The Oyster Roister"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> The Oyster Roister<br \/>\nby cricketjeff on September 25, 2009.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved<br \/>\nWhat noise annoys an oyster?<br \/>\nJust the clamouring of clams,<br \/>\nWhen the scallops start to roister<br \/>\nOr the clattering of trams?<\/p>\n<p>Are barnacles all barmy<br \/>\nAnd do winkles wock and woll?<br \/>\nAre there mussels in the army<br \/>\nMaking jokes and sounding droll?<\/p>\n<p>When the sea shells start their shouting<br \/>\nAre there riots on the beach?<br \/>\nAre there conch shells on an outing<br \/>\nAnd do cockles love to screech?<\/p>\n<p>Though these other shells may boister<br \/>\nAny fuss they cause is small,<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s an oyster that a noise-ster<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s the loudest shell of all!!!<\/p>\n<p> Author notes<br \/>\n&#8221; A noisy noise annoys an oyster&#8221; was a line by Dr Suess, I think as a caption<br \/>\nto a cartoon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Oyster Roister by cricketjeff on September 25, 2009.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved What noise annoys an oyster? Just the clamouring of clams, When the scallops start to roister Or the clattering of trams? Are barnacles all barmy And do winkles wock and woll? Are there mussels in the army Making jokes and [&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-4154","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4154","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=4154"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4154\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7354,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4154\/revisions\/7354"}],"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=4154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}