{"id":4697,"date":"2023-11-26T20:26:26","date_gmt":"2023-11-26T20:26:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=4697"},"modified":"2023-11-28T22:47:40","modified_gmt":"2023-11-28T22:47:40","slug":"nursery-times","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/n-poems\/nursery-times\/","title":{"rendered":"Nursery Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Nursery Times<br \/>\nby cricketjeff on August 5, 2010.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved<br \/>\n[Posts%20by%20cricketjeff%202_files\/415.html]<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Ride a cock horse to Banbury Cross&#8221;<br \/>\nBut here is a kitten who&#8217;s not got a hoss<br \/>\nShe hasn&#8217;t got fingers clings on by her toes<br \/>\nI don&#8217;t think that this is the way that it goes.<\/p>\n<p>The children were singing as kitty half dozed<br \/>\nBut they didn&#8217;t mean all the things she supposed<br \/>\nShe&#8217;s doing her best to meet all of their aims<br \/>\nBut cats aren&#8217;t equipped for these nursery games<\/p>\n<p>She tried Humpty Dumpty but hadn&#8217;t a wall<br \/>\nAnd no troops of soldiers would come to her call<br \/>\nShe played Jack and Jill with a run up the stairs<br \/>\nAnd tumbling down caught her Mum unawares<\/p>\n<p>A ride in a basket to dust off the sky<br \/>\nLooked rather too tricky the sky&#8217;s very high<br \/>\nShe&#8217;d hadn&#8217;t a lamb and did not go school<br \/>\nAnd hey diddle diddle&#8217;s a game for a fool<\/p>\n<p>So that is the reason she&#8217;s riding the cock<br \/>\nWhen all&#8217;s been explained it does not seem a shock<br \/>\nSo &#8220;Pussy cat, pussy cat where have you been?&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;I rode on this hen but there wasn&#8217;t a queen!&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nursery Times by cricketjeff on August 5, 2010.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved [Posts%20by%20cricketjeff%202_files\/415.html] &#8220;Ride a cock horse to Banbury Cross&#8221; But here is a kitten who&#8217;s not got a hoss She hasn&#8217;t got fingers clings on by her toes I don&#8217;t think that this is the way that it goes. The children were [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":9730,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-4697","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4697","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=4697"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4697\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6811,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4697\/revisions\/6811"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}