{"id":5069,"date":"2023-11-26T20:26:01","date_gmt":"2023-11-26T20:26:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=5069"},"modified":"2023-11-28T23:04:47","modified_gmt":"2023-11-28T23:04:47","slug":"the-moderate-drinker","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/the-poems\/the-moderate-drinker\/","title":{"rendered":"The Moderate Drinker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> The Moderate Drinker<br \/>\nby cricketjeff on May 22, 2011.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved<br \/>\nCapacity prodigious,<br \/>\nAnd he likes to see it shown<br \/>\nHe has never been religious<br \/>\nBut he never walks alone.<br \/>\nThe friends that stay beside him<br \/>\nMake him feel his life&#8217;s complete;<br \/>\nHe so loves the feel inside him<br \/>\nOf that alcoholic heat.<\/p>\n<p>A bottle full of cider<br \/>\nAnd some vodka in a flask<br \/>\nWith rum as his decider<br \/>\nTo resolve a tricky ask<br \/>\nA premixed gin and tonic<br \/>\nWith martini for a change<br \/>\nAnd when he&#8217;s melancholic<br \/>\nThere are more he can arrange<\/p>\n<p>In his case he keeps some Archers<br \/>\nThough he&#8217;s had it for a while<br \/>\nIf he sees some sad departures<br \/>\nSouthern Comfort makes him smile<br \/>\nWith a brandy in his pocket<br \/>\nAnd white wine to fight a thirst<br \/>\nHe&#8217;s enough to fuel a rocket<br \/>\nAnd a head that&#8217;s fit to burst!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Moderate Drinker by cricketjeff on May 22, 2011.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved Capacity prodigious, And he likes to see it shown He has never been religious But he never walks alone. The friends that stay beside him Make him feel his life&#8217;s complete; He so loves the feel inside him Of that [&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-5069","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5069","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=5069"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5069\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6440,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5069\/revisions\/6440"}],"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=5069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}