{"id":4597,"date":"2023-11-26T20:26:27","date_gmt":"2023-11-26T20:26:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=4597"},"modified":"2023-11-28T23:04:47","modified_gmt":"2023-11-28T23:04:47","slug":"the-pig-and-the-porcupine-getting-fit","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/the-poems\/the-pig-and-the-porcupine-getting-fit\/","title":{"rendered":"The Pig and the Porcupine getting fit!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> The Pig and the Porcupine getting fit!<br \/>\nby cricketjeff on May 19, 2010.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved<br \/>\nThe pig and the porcupine took a drive<br \/>\nIn a rickety open-topped bus<br \/>\nThey took some brandy and sugar-free candy<br \/>\n(So dentists won&#8217;t make a fuss)<br \/>\nThey drove away on a beautiful day<br \/>\nDown a road that was filled to the brim<br \/>\nAnd after an hour and a summery shower<br \/>\nThey stopped and they went to the gym, the gym<br \/>\nThey stopped and they went to the gym<br \/>\nThe pig lifted weights (which the porcupine hates)<br \/>\nAnd rippled his abs to the crowd<br \/>\nThe porcupine sighed and began to decide<br \/>\nThat the Pig was too pompous and proud<br \/>\nThey drove for a week then started to speak<br \/>\nOf the training they aimed to pursue<br \/>\nSo back to the gym getting fitter and slim<br \/>\nAnd raising a hullabaloo baloo<br \/>\nAnd raising a hullabaloo<br \/>\nTheir bodies perfected were freely inspected<br \/>\nAnd soon they were falling in love<br \/>\nThey married while jogging (and squeezing and snogging)<br \/>\nWhich gave their regimes quite a shove<br \/>\nA fine honeymoon which was over too soon<br \/>\nThen back where they loved to be seen<br \/>\nWhere lycra&#8217;ed and pumped our fitness freaks jumped<br \/>\nBack onto the rowing machine machine<br \/>\nBack onto the rowing machine!<\/p>\n<p> Author notes<br \/>\nWith apologies to Edward Lear!!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Pig and the Porcupine getting fit! by cricketjeff on May 19, 2010.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved The pig and the porcupine took a drive In a rickety open-topped bus They took some brandy and sugar-free candy (So dentists won&#8217;t make a fuss) They drove away on a beautiful day Down a road [&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-4597","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4597","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=4597"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4597\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6911,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4597\/revisions\/6911"}],"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=4597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}