{"id":4545,"date":"2023-11-26T20:26:28","date_gmt":"2023-11-26T20:26:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=4545"},"modified":"2023-11-28T23:04:45","modified_gmt":"2023-11-28T23:04:45","slug":"the-doom-of-the-galahad","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/the-poems\/the-doom-of-the-galahad\/","title":{"rendered":"The Doom of the Galahad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> The Doom of the Galahad<br \/>\nby cricketjeff on April 12, 2010.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved<br \/>\nBefore they sailed they knew the ship was doomed<br \/>\nTheir families believed that they were dead<br \/>\nThe tragedy that everyone assumed<br \/>\nReverberated through each anxious head<\/p>\n<p>The Captain dropped a mirror and it smashed<br \/>\nThe first mate saw four magpies eating seed<br \/>\nA black cat and the helmsman almost crashed<br \/>\nAnd half the crew saw Saint Ignatious bleed<\/p>\n<p>These omens meant the crew was all enured<br \/>\nNo cheering crowds would see the anchor weighed<br \/>\nA curse as bad as theirs could not be cured<br \/>\nInstead of &#8220;Taps&#8221; &#8220;The Final Post&#8221; was played<\/p>\n<p>Two weeks had passed when Galahad arrived<br \/>\nDespite their dread the crew had all survived<\/p>\n<p> Author notes<br \/>\nThe only rules are:<br \/>\nMust be at least 10 lines long.<br \/>\nEvery line must end with the &#8220;D&#8221; sound like &#8220;side&#8221; &#8220;doomed&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Doom of the Galahad by cricketjeff on April 12, 2010.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved Before they sailed they knew the ship was doomed Their families believed that they were dead The tragedy that everyone assumed Reverberated through each anxious head The Captain dropped a mirror and it smashed The first mate saw [&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-4545","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4545","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=4545"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4545\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6963,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4545\/revisions\/6963"}],"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=4545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}