{"id":4583,"date":"2023-11-26T20:26:27","date_gmt":"2023-11-26T20:26:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=4583"},"modified":"2023-11-28T22:53:32","modified_gmt":"2023-11-28T22:53:32","slug":"poor-gordon-brown","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/p-poems\/poor-gordon-brown\/","title":{"rendered":"Poor Gordon Brown!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Poor Gordon Brown!<br \/>\nby cricketjeff on May 7, 2010.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved<br \/>\nPoor Gordon Brown will not step down<br \/>\nAlthough it&#8217;s clear he lost<br \/>\nHe&#8217;d even stay for half the pay<br \/>\nAnd never count the cost<\/p>\n<p>He didn&#8217;t think the ship would sink<br \/>\nDespite the holes he made<br \/>\nHe thought that we would never see<br \/>\nThe ways we&#8217;d been betrayed<br \/>\nHe tried so hard and played each card<br \/>\nNow can&#8217;t believe he failed<br \/>\nNo other eyes show such surprise<br \/>\nHis ending was well trailed<\/p>\n<p>Poor Gordon Brown will not step down<br \/>\nAlthough it&#8217;s clear he lost<br \/>\nHe&#8217;d even stay for half the pay<br \/>\nAnd never count the cost<\/p>\n<p>That old fox Blair did not play fair<br \/>\nHe led through easy times<br \/>\nAnd quickly left while lies and theft<br \/>\nWere thought his largest crimes<br \/>\nHe left his friend to try to mend<br \/>\nA chasm ten miles wide<br \/>\nWith worn out tools, a crew of fools<br \/>\nAnd string to stem the tide<\/p>\n<p>Still Gordon Brown will not step down<br \/>\nOr else the World would see<br \/>\nAn ape or two would surely do<br \/>\nA better job than he!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Poor Gordon Brown! by cricketjeff on May 7, 2010.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved Poor Gordon Brown will not step down Although it&#8217;s clear he lost He&#8217;d even stay for half the pay And never count the cost He didn&#8217;t think the ship would sink Despite the holes he made He thought that we [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":9734,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-4583","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4583","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=4583"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4583\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6924,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4583\/revisions\/6924"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}