{"id":4239,"date":"2023-11-26T20:26:49","date_gmt":"2023-11-26T20:26:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=4239"},"modified":"2023-11-28T23:03:39","modified_gmt":"2023-11-28T23:03:39","slug":"tall-tales-of-a-long-life","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/t-poems\/tall-tales-of-a-long-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Tall tales of a long life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Tall tales of a long life<br \/>\nby cricketjeff on November 7, 2009.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved<br \/>\n[Posts%20by%20cricketjeff%202_files\/107.html]<\/p>\n<p>We bought ourselves a pony when the baby came along<br \/>\nShe learned to ride before she learned to walk<br \/>\nThe pony was a small one but she seemed quite fit and strong<br \/>\nShe learned his name before she learned to talk<\/p>\n<p>But next we had the triplets and the pony wouldn&#8217;t do<br \/>\nWith four on top the pony would be full<br \/>\nSo we went to see the breeder and he offered something new<br \/>\nA breed of horse that he&#8217;d designed to pull<\/p>\n<p>Another set of triplets and we wondered how to cope<br \/>\nA scientist said splice some DNA<br \/>\nWe didn&#8217;t find it tricky just like tying knots in rope<br \/>\nAnd so our brand new hoooorsie came to stay<\/p>\n<p>We rather overdid it so we had to have some more<br \/>\nA set of twins and then another one<br \/>\nIf mother were to tempt to a romp upon the floor<br \/>\nI&#8217;m not too sure I&#8217;d give in to the fun<\/p>\n<p>How could we find another who could fit our family<br \/>\nSince steeds like these will never grow on trees<br \/>\nWe better stop expanding we&#8217;ve enough for mom and me<br \/>\nTonight we will make do with just a squeeze!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tall tales of a long life by cricketjeff on November 7, 2009.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved [Posts%20by%20cricketjeff%202_files\/107.html] We bought ourselves a pony when the baby came along She learned to ride before she learned to walk The pony was a small one but she seemed quite fit and strong She learned his name [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":9748,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-4239","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4239","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=4239"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4239\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7269,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4239\/revisions\/7269"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}