{"id":5018,"date":"2023-11-26T20:26:02","date_gmt":"2023-11-26T20:26:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=5018"},"modified":"2023-11-28T22:53:32","modified_gmt":"2023-11-28T22:53:32","slug":"phil-dwithate-and-family","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/p-poems\/phil-dwithate-and-family\/","title":{"rendered":"Phil Dwithate and Family."},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Phil Dwithate and Family.<br \/>\nby cricketjeff on April 4, 2011.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved<br \/>\nOld Phil Dwithate was seldom calm,<br \/>\nHe never radiated charm,<br \/>\nBut swore and cursed his way through life<br \/>\nEncouraged by his loathsome wife.<br \/>\nAnd Lace Dwithate (that was her name)<br \/>\nSpent every day dispensing blame<br \/>\nFor all the faults she proudly showed<br \/>\nWhile getting ready to explode.<\/p>\n<p>The worst way that this pair traduced<br \/>\nWas on the day they reproduced;<br \/>\nTheir twins were worse in every way<br \/>\nThan decent language can portray &#8212;<br \/>\nA talk show welcomed Pen&#8217;s tirades,<br \/>\nThe vilest verbal hand grenades.<br \/>\nStill worse than Pen was brother Bob,<br \/>\nA vicious and vindictive slob,<br \/>\nWho lied and schemed to n-th degree &#8212;<br \/>\nAnd so became our new MP!!!<\/p>\n<p> Author notes<br \/>\nThis is a contest for having fun inventing a name that sparks an image with its<br \/>\nplay on words and then using that amusing name to write an appropriate poem.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Phil Dwithate and Family. by cricketjeff on April 4, 2011.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved Old Phil Dwithate was seldom calm, He never radiated charm, But swore and cursed his way through life Encouraged by his loathsome wife. And Lace Dwithate (that was her name) Spent every day dispensing blame For all the faults [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":9734,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-5018","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5018","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=5018"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5018\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6490,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5018\/revisions\/6490"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}