{"id":4570,"date":"2023-11-26T20:26:28","date_gmt":"2023-11-26T20:26:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=4570"},"modified":"2023-11-28T23:04:46","modified_gmt":"2023-11-28T23:04:46","slug":"the-land-where-sanity-reigns","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/the-poems\/the-land-where-sanity-reigns\/","title":{"rendered":"The Land where Sanity Reigns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> The Land where Sanity Reigns<br \/>\nby cricketjeff on April 26, 2010.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved<br \/>\nIn Umbleania-by-the-Sea<br \/>\nThey all dislike absurdity,<br \/>\nSo no-one there would ever dream<br \/>\nOf using sheep to cross a stream,<br \/>\nThey never cut the grass with forks,<br \/>\nOr hang their washing lines from storks<br \/>\nAnd nobody would think it right<br \/>\nTo make an ageing rose-bush fight.<br \/>\nThe Umbleanians to a man<br \/>\nAre wedded to the proper plan;<br \/>\nMost streams are crossed by riding cats,<br \/>\nIn leather boots and bowler hats.<br \/>\nThe grass is never cut at all<br \/>\nBut folded tight to keep it small.<br \/>\nAll washing lines are underground,<br \/>\nWhere heavy rain is rarely found<br \/>\nAnd furthermore, each Tuesday night,<br \/>\nThey watch their youthful roses fight!<\/p>\n<p> Author notes<br \/>\nUmbleania-by-the-Sea is, as most of you will know, the only African country<br \/>\nwith a long Pacific coastline. Situated as it is within a few days easy walking<br \/>\nof Australia, just outside Ohio on the Mexican border, it is a popular weekend<br \/>\nretreat for all Frenchmen (but not French women) especially during the Bongalow<br \/>\nseason.<br \/>\nFor those of you who do not know the way from here, please take the number 47<br \/>\nbus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Land where Sanity Reigns by cricketjeff on April 26, 2010.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved In Umbleania-by-the-Sea They all dislike absurdity, So no-one there would ever dream Of using sheep to cross a stream, They never cut the grass with forks, Or hang their washing lines from storks And nobody would think it [&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-4570","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4570","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=4570"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4570\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6938,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4570\/revisions\/6938"}],"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=4570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}