{"id":4234,"date":"2023-11-26T20:26:49","date_gmt":"2023-11-26T20:26:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=4234"},"modified":"2023-11-28T23:04:46","modified_gmt":"2023-11-28T23:04:46","slug":"the-limerick","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/the-poems\/the-limerick\/","title":{"rendered":"The Limerick"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> The Limerick<br \/>\nby cricketjeff on November 5, 2009.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved<br \/>\nThe Limerick lives by its meter<br \/>\nThe anapaest really is sweeter<br \/>\nWith pluperfect timing<br \/>\nAnd intricate rhyming<br \/>\nYou write about somebody&#8217;s peter<\/p>\n<p>Or maybe a bottom&#8217;s appealing<br \/>\nTo poets who rhyme with great feeling<br \/>\nThey could be quite fickle<br \/>\nAnd slap and then tickle<br \/>\nTo listen to somebody squealing<\/p>\n<p>Some limericks aren&#8217;t all that dirty<br \/>\nThey may be just charming and flirty<br \/>\nBut all of the best ones<br \/>\nAre leg ones or breast ones<br \/>\nOr tales of a bad girl called Gertie<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s strange that so formal a verse<br \/>\nThat&#8217;s tidy without being terse<br \/>\nCould fall on the wrong-side<br \/>\nThe luridly strong side<br \/>\nOf juvenile humour, and worse!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Limerick by cricketjeff on November 5, 2009.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved The Limerick lives by its meter The anapaest really is sweeter With pluperfect timing And intricate rhyming You write about somebody&#8217;s peter Or maybe a bottom&#8217;s appealing To poets who rhyme with great feeling They could be quite fickle And slap [&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-4234","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4234","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=4234"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4234\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7275,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4234\/revisions\/7275"}],"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=4234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}