{"id":4983,"date":"2023-11-26T20:26:03","date_gmt":"2023-11-26T20:26:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=4983"},"modified":"2023-11-28T23:09:03","modified_gmt":"2023-11-28T23:09:03","slug":"the-song-of-gus-and-jake","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/the-poems\/the-song-of-gus-and-jake\/","title":{"rendered":"The Song of Gus and Jake"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> The Song of Gus and Jake<br \/>\nby cricketjeff on March 9, 2011.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved<br \/>\nA driver called Gus<br \/>\nOnce sat in his bus<br \/>\nAnd thought about starting the route<br \/>\nBut then he saw Jake<br \/>\nSo went for a break<br \/>\nTo talk about Neville the newt<\/p>\n<p>Amphibious chatter<br \/>\nMay not always matter<br \/>\nBut they were both terribly keen<br \/>\nThey&#8217;d switched their discussion<br \/>\n(In English and Russian)<br \/>\nTo how to keep natterjacks clean<\/p>\n<p>As queuers grew restless<br \/>\n(&#8216;Twas cold, they were vestless)<br \/>\nThe drivers moved on to talk frog<br \/>\nThese green short-tailed creatures<br \/>\nHave wonderful features<br \/>\nAnd Jake needed thoughts for his blog<\/p>\n<p>The language got stronger<br \/>\nAs queues grew still longer<br \/>\nAnd tempers het up by degrees<br \/>\nMost people can&#8217;t stand a<br \/>\nRed backed salamander<br \/>\nWhile they are beginning to freeze<\/p>\n<p>Why should people fuss<br \/>\nWhen two busmen discuss<br \/>\nThe passions that keep them alive<br \/>\nSo what if they&#8217;re waiting<br \/>\nThese men are debating<br \/>\nNew ways that the planet can thrive<\/p>\n<p>At last they&#8217;ve got driving<br \/>\nThe bus is arriving<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s full as a marketday pub<br \/>\nAnd slow as a tortoise<br \/>\nWhose legs aren&#8217;t supporters<br \/>\nOf any known athletic club<\/p>\n<p>All buses seem lazy<br \/>\nDrive passengers crazy<br \/>\nAnd travel in threes when they can<br \/>\nBut I need to catch them<br \/>\nA walk cannot match them<br \/>\nAnd running is not in my plan!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Song of Gus and Jake by cricketjeff on March 9, 2011.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved A driver called Gus Once sat in his bus And thought about starting the route But then he saw Jake So went for a break To talk about Neville the newt Amphibious chatter May not always matter [&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-4983","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4983","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=4983"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4983\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6524,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4983\/revisions\/6524"}],"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=4983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}