{"id":5298,"date":"2023-11-26T20:25:58","date_gmt":"2023-11-26T20:25:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=5298"},"modified":"2023-11-28T23:09:04","modified_gmt":"2023-11-28T23:09:04","slug":"the-virus-is-a-cunning-beast","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/the-poems\/the-virus-is-a-cunning-beast\/","title":{"rendered":"The virus is a cunning beast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> The virus is a cunning beast<br \/>\nby cricketjeff on January 26, 2012.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved<br \/>\nThe virus is a cunning beast<br \/>\nWho doesn&#8217;t worry in the least<br \/>\nThat all his guile and secrecy<br \/>\nCan leave mere men in misery<br \/>\nThe common cold and influenza<br \/>\nBring sneezes to a harsh cadenza<br \/>\nMeasles, mumps and chicken pox<br \/>\nCan have us shaking to our socks,<br \/>\nAnd herpes with its many strains<br \/>\nHolds far too many in its chains.<br \/>\nThese tiny germs, not quite alive,<br \/>\nFind many ways that they can thrive<br \/>\nAnd as they do so with a will<br \/>\nThey always seem to make us ill!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The virus is a cunning beast by cricketjeff on January 26, 2012.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved The virus is a cunning beast Who doesn&#8217;t worry in the least That all his guile and secrecy Can leave mere men in misery The common cold and influenza Bring sneezes to a harsh cadenza Measles, mumps [&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-5298","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5298","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=5298"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5298\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6210,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5298\/revisions\/6210"}],"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=5298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}