{"id":4283,"date":"2023-11-26T20:26:48","date_gmt":"2023-11-26T20:26:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=4283"},"modified":"2023-11-28T23:04:45","modified_gmt":"2023-11-28T23:04:45","slug":"the-bus-fuss","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/the-poems\/the-bus-fuss\/","title":{"rendered":"The bus fuss"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> The bus fuss<br \/>\nby cricketjeff on November 29, 2009.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved<br \/>\nA blue hippopotamus kicked up a fuss<br \/>\nWhen buying a ticket to ride on the bus<br \/>\nThe tiger conductor said he&#8217;d have to pay<br \/>\nIn chocolate pennies to travel today<\/p>\n<p>The elephant snorted when told of these rules<br \/>\nAnd hotly declared that all striped cats are fools<br \/>\nThe lions responded that stripy or no<br \/>\nNo pachyderm bully can treat a cat so<\/p>\n<p>The fuss and commotion got fiercer until<br \/>\nThe driving gorilla weighed in with a will<br \/>\nThen all of the passengers sat down to wait<br \/>\nAnd see who would win in this foolish debate<\/p>\n<p>They argued and squabbled like men in the house<br \/>\nSome roared like a dragon some squeaked like a mouse<br \/>\nNo answer looked likely the bus would not move<br \/>\nAn old politician would surely approve<\/p>\n<p>But after an hour with the fur set to fly<br \/>\nThe whole thing was ended with one steady cry<br \/>\nNow Daniel stop playing and listen to me<br \/>\nThe toys go away now it&#8217;s time for your tea!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The bus fuss by cricketjeff on November 29, 2009.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved A blue hippopotamus kicked up a fuss When buying a ticket to ride on the bus The tiger conductor said he&#8217;d have to pay In chocolate pennies to travel today The elephant snorted when told of these rules And hotly [&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-4283","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4283","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=4283"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4283\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7224,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4283\/revisions\/7224"}],"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=4283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}