{"id":4754,"date":"2023-11-26T20:26:25","date_gmt":"2023-11-26T20:26:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=4754"},"modified":"2023-11-27T22:40:39","modified_gmt":"2023-11-27T22:40:39","slug":"alphabalderdash","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/a-poems\/alphabalderdash\/","title":{"rendered":"Alphabalderdash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Alphabalderdash<br \/>\nby cricketjeff on September 18, 2010.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved<br \/>\nAlan Aardvardk ate an aimless apple<br \/>\nBetina Bear blew bubbles for a bet<br \/>\nChris Chorister was singing in the chapel<br \/>\nAnd dodgy Dave did deals although in debt.<\/p>\n<p>Evadne Eels eats eggs each early Easter<br \/>\nFrank Foozie fought a floating football shirt<br \/>\nGrant Gorringe gave those grinning girls at least a<br \/>\nHalf a hundred hints that he would like to flirt<\/p>\n<p>I itch inside the alphabet is irksome<br \/>\nJust like a jumping Jack on roller skates<br \/>\nKit Kendrick tried but couldn&#8217;t ever work some<br \/>\nLost loving into washing up the plates<\/p>\n<p>My muse is mad that I won&#8217;t ever let her<br \/>\nNudge naughty Nelly&#8217;s nibbles off the shelf<br \/>\nOh what revenge, but wait I&#8217;m gonna get her<br \/>\nPushing Polly&#8217;s purple pixies off myself<\/p>\n<p>Quite what this rhyme is for I&#8217;ve quite forgotten<br \/>\nRemarkable the way a mind can stray<br \/>\nSo what if the whole thing is misbegotten<br \/>\nThere&#8217;s not a lot of work to do today<\/p>\n<p>Umbrellas urge us all to walk in winter<br \/>\nVexatiously they invert in the breeze<br \/>\nWhy worry if your dreams begin to splinter<br \/>\nX-raying xenophobes is such a tease<\/p>\n<p>You can&#8217;t believe I&#8217;d post this load of rot<br \/>\nZigzagging through the mess of all I&#8217;ve got<\/p>\n<p> Author notes<br \/>\nEveryone should write an alphabet from time to time, I don&#8217;t know why, but they<br \/>\nshould.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alphabalderdash by cricketjeff on September 18, 2010.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved Alan Aardvardk ate an aimless apple Betina Bear blew bubbles for a bet Chris Chorister was singing in the chapel And dodgy Dave did deals although in debt. Evadne Eels eats eggs each early Easter Frank Foozie fought a floating football shirt [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":9692,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-4754","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4754","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=4754"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4754\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6753,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4754\/revisions\/6753"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}