{"id":5058,"date":"2023-11-26T20:26:02","date_gmt":"2023-11-26T20:26:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=5058"},"modified":"2023-11-28T22:53:33","modified_gmt":"2023-11-28T22:53:33","slug":"professing-their-love","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/p-poems\/professing-their-love\/","title":{"rendered":"Professing Their Love"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Professing Their Love<br \/>\nby cricketjeff on May 12, 2011.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved<br \/>\nWhen Percival Prendergast paused by the pond<br \/>\nComposing some prose on a tripinnate frond<br \/>\nHe thought that he saw by the cold water&#8217;s edge<br \/>\nA wonderful clump of a rather rare sedge<br \/>\nProfessor Pam Paddle then popped up to say<br \/>\nThe students he&#8217;d sent her had melted away<br \/>\nIt seems they were bored by the sex-life of hops<br \/>\nAnd put down their books and set off for the shops<\/p>\n<p>Poor Percival wept when he heard that his class<br \/>\nThought more about fashion than species of grass<br \/>\nHe couldn&#8217;t believe an intelligent mind<br \/>\nWould willingly leave education behind<br \/>\nPam Paddle was sad to see Percy distressed<br \/>\nAnd pressed his damp cheeks to her feminine chest<br \/>\nWhere soon he stopped sobbing and felt something new<br \/>\nThat maybe those students were not without clue<\/p>\n<p>For Percival Prendergast life was now sweet<br \/>\nHe thought more of Pam than of cowslips or wheat<br \/>\nThat summer they walked through the meadows of life<br \/>\nAnd by a rare orchid he said &#8220;Be my wife&#8221;<br \/>\nThey made their &#8220;I do&#8221;s In the shade of a tree<br \/>\nAnd spent that first night like an orchid and bee<br \/>\nSo now there&#8217;s two Prendergasts teaching in school<br \/>\nAll thanks to that day when the class played the fool<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Professing Their Love by cricketjeff on May 12, 2011.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved When Percival Prendergast paused by the pond Composing some prose on a tripinnate frond He thought that he saw by the cold water&#8217;s edge A wonderful clump of a rather rare sedge Professor Pam Paddle then popped up to say [&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-5058","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5058","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=5058"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5058\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6450,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5058\/revisions\/6450"}],"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=5058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}