{"id":5340,"date":"2023-11-26T20:25:33","date_gmt":"2023-11-26T20:25:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=5340"},"modified":"2023-11-28T23:04:45","modified_gmt":"2023-11-28T23:04:45","slug":"the-biter-bit","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/the-poems\/the-biter-bit\/","title":{"rendered":"The Biter Bit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> The Biter Bit<br \/>\nby cricketjeff on April 24, 2012.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved<br \/>\nHe commented &#8220;what a wheeze this is&#8221;<br \/>\nWhen talking of killing his Mrs<br \/>\nHe wouldn&#8217;t just stab her<br \/>\nOr pay thugs to grab her<br \/>\nBut poison her slowly with kisses<\/p>\n<p>The next girl he married was Brenda<br \/>\nBut she was a profligate spender<br \/>\nA booby-trapped handbag<br \/>\nWas able to sandbag<br \/>\nAnd rather emphatically end &#8216;er<\/p>\n<p>He courted and wed Polly Wildim<br \/>\nHer laughter and innocence thrilled him<br \/>\nBut she was no stranger<br \/>\nTo playing with danger<br \/>\nAnd just for a giggle she killed him!<\/p>\n<p> Author notes<br \/>\nI seem to have killed quite a few characters lately, better make sure I keep it<br \/>\nto poetry I suppose &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Biter Bit by cricketjeff on April 24, 2012.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved He commented &#8220;what a wheeze this is&#8221; When talking of killing his Mrs He wouldn&#8217;t just stab her Or pay thugs to grab her But poison her slowly with kisses The next girl he married was Brenda But she was [&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-5340","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5340","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=5340"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5340\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6168,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5340\/revisions\/6168"}],"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=5340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}