{"id":4334,"date":"2023-11-26T20:26:48","date_gmt":"2023-11-26T20:26:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=4334"},"modified":"2023-11-28T23:09:04","modified_gmt":"2023-11-28T23:09:04","slug":"the-ups-and-downs-of-life","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/the-poems\/the-ups-and-downs-of-life\/","title":{"rendered":"The ups and downs of life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> The ups and downs of life<br \/>\nby cricketjeff on December 28, 2009.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved<br \/>\nTo celebrate the season&#8217;s hundredth chilver,<br \/>\nThe best year that the shepherd&#8217;s ever known,<br \/>\nHe gives his wife another piece of silver<br \/>\nAnd gives his dog a tasty marrow bone.<\/p>\n<p>A jacket from the London tailor Gorringe,<br \/>\nHe likes to cut a dash on market day.<br \/>\nA herring bone that&#8217;s lined in glowing orange &#8212;<br \/>\nAnd bright enough to frighten birds away.<\/p>\n<p>Then for his horse a set of tack in purple,<br \/>\nHe should have guessed life isn&#8217;t like a dream.<br \/>\nHalfway to town he snaps the horse&#8217;s curpel<br \/>\nAnd tumbles down into a muddy stream.<\/p>\n<p>A wiser man would dress in greens and browns<br \/>\nA farmer&#8217;s life is full of ups and downs!<\/p>\n<p> Author notes<br \/>\nA chilver is a ewe lamb, a curpel is another name for a crupper, a strap that<br \/>\ngoes from the saddle round the horse&#8217;s rump, and Gorringe is a surname from<br \/>\nSussex and the name of a famous tailors shop and school outfitter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The ups and downs of life by cricketjeff on December 28, 2009.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved To celebrate the season&#8217;s hundredth chilver, The best year that the shepherd&#8217;s ever known, He gives his wife another piece of silver And gives his dog a tasty marrow bone. A jacket from the London tailor Gorringe, [&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-4334","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4334","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=4334"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4334\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7173,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4334\/revisions\/7173"}],"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=4334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}