{"id":4875,"date":"2023-11-26T20:26:23","date_gmt":"2023-11-26T20:26:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=4875"},"modified":"2023-11-28T23:09:52","modified_gmt":"2023-11-28T23:09:52","slug":"three-cheers-for-the-selfish","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/t-poems\/three-cheers-for-the-selfish\/","title":{"rendered":"Three cheers for the selfish"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Three cheers for the selfish<br \/>\nby cricketjeff on December 20, 2010.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved<br \/>\nThree cheers for the selfish, the thoughtless, the fools,<br \/>\nWho blunder through life while ignoring the rules;<br \/>\nThey block up the pavements to wait for a bus,<br \/>\nAnd never get served without making a fuss.<br \/>\nThey&#8217;ll drop off a friend but not pull to one side,<br \/>\nThe rest of the cars are just out for a ride.<br \/>\n&#8220;Ten Items or Less&#8221; (should be fewer I know)<br \/>\nApplies to the masses but not to them though.<br \/>\nTheir children run riot while they stand and chat,<br \/>\nThey play ghastly music that&#8217;s too loud and flat.<br \/>\nThey don&#8217;t know &#8220;excuse me&#8221;, have never said please,<br \/>\nAnd don&#8217;t carry tissues to hold in a sneeze.<br \/>\nThe train is too crowded but they&#8217;ll never move<br \/>\nBy standing their ground they have some things to prove:-<br \/>\nThat brains are not needed to live on this Earth<br \/>\nAnd that nothing at all is the sum of their worth!<\/p>\n<p> Author notes<br \/>\nDontcher just lurve people?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three cheers for the selfish by cricketjeff on December 20, 2010.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved Three cheers for the selfish, the thoughtless, the fools, Who blunder through life while ignoring the rules; They block up the pavements to wait for a bus, And never get served without making a fuss. They&#8217;ll drop off [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":9748,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-4875","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4875","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=4875"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4875\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6632,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4875\/revisions\/6632"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}