{"id":5253,"date":"2023-11-26T20:25:59","date_gmt":"2023-11-26T20:25:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=5253"},"modified":"2023-11-27T22:45:11","modified_gmt":"2023-11-27T22:45:11","slug":"ballooning-in-bournemouth","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/b-poems\/ballooning-in-bournemouth\/","title":{"rendered":"Ballooning in Bournemouth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Ballooning in Bournemouth<br \/>\nby cricketjeff on November 20, 2011.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved<br \/>\nToday I went to Bournemouth and went up in a balloon<br \/>\nTo watch the burning sunset of a golden afternoon<br \/>\nWe&#8217;d paddled down at Sandbanks had a carvery for lunch<br \/>\nAnd saw a cheeky squirrel beat a magpie to the punch<\/p>\n<p>The sea was almost warm though it&#8217;s November<br \/>\nThe waves were tipped with white against the blue<br \/>\nThe finest English sea that I remember<br \/>\nThough cold and dreary weather should be due<\/p>\n<p>The sweetshop down in Bournemouth stocks a range of tasty treats<br \/>\nSo we ate chocs and toffees as we wandered round the streets<br \/>\nThe sunset burned like embers from a raging winter fire<br \/>\nAs spun by dancing breezes we stayed anchored to a wire<\/p>\n<p>The beach was soft and silver in the sun<br \/>\nAnd children ran with kites across the sand<br \/>\nPerhaps the final day of summer fun<br \/>\nWhen sheltering from blizzards could be planned<\/p>\n<p>A Christmas fair in Bournemouth after driving through the fog<br \/>\nA twinge of indigestion from a plate of roasted hog<br \/>\nThen high above the gardens we were treated to the show<br \/>\nOf a red and golden skyscape and all Lilliput below.<\/p>\n<p> Author notes<br \/>\nWe drove down to visit my youngest son at University in Bournemouth, the first<br \/>\nhalf of the drive down and the second half of the drive back were through<br \/>\nghastly drifting fogbanks, but in between &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ballooning in Bournemouth by cricketjeff on November 20, 2011.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved Today I went to Bournemouth and went up in a balloon To watch the burning sunset of a golden afternoon We&#8217;d paddled down at Sandbanks had a carvery for lunch And saw a cheeky squirrel beat a magpie to the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":9694,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-5253","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5253","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=5253"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5253\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6255,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5253\/revisions\/6255"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}