{"id":5263,"date":"2023-11-26T20:25:59","date_gmt":"2023-11-26T20:25:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=5263"},"modified":"2023-11-27T22:42:57","modified_gmt":"2023-11-27T22:42:57","slug":"an-author-named-arthur","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/a-poems\/an-author-named-arthur\/","title":{"rendered":"An Author Named Arthur"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> An Author Named Arthur<br \/>\nby cricketjeff on December 5, 2011.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved<br \/>\nAn author named Arthur sat writing<br \/>\nA story that wasn&#8217;t exciting<br \/>\nIt dealt with the wars<br \/>\nBetween Zulus and Boers<br \/>\nBut somehow left out all the fighting<\/p>\n<p>Each line that he writes needs adjusting<br \/>\nHis love scenes aren&#8217;t brimming with lusting<br \/>\nNo passion or heat<br \/>\nJust a plate of dead meat<br \/>\nYou can&#8217;t get it done without thrusting<\/p>\n<p>Although he was willing to grovel<br \/>\nNo publisher published his novel<br \/>\nBut now he&#8217;s succeeded<br \/>\nHis new book seems needed<br \/>\n&#8220;The Rich Person&#8217;s Guide to the Hovel&#8221;!<\/p>\n<p> Author notes<br \/>\nI don&#8217;t think my tale has a moral<br \/>\nBut I&#8217;m not intending to quarrel<br \/>\nIf you think it tells you<br \/>\nTo stick to what sells, you<br \/>\nCould soon wear a wreath made from laurel!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An Author Named Arthur by cricketjeff on December 5, 2011.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved An author named Arthur sat writing A story that wasn&#8217;t exciting It dealt with the wars Between Zulus and Boers But somehow left out all the fighting Each line that he writes needs adjusting His love scenes aren&#8217;t brimming [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":9692,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-5263","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5263","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=5263"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5263\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6246,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5263\/revisions\/6246"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}