{"id":5444,"date":"2023-11-26T20:25:31","date_gmt":"2023-11-26T20:25:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=5444"},"modified":"2023-11-28T22:50:49","modified_gmt":"2023-11-28T22:50:49","slug":"obeying-the-rules","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/o-poems\/obeying-the-rules\/","title":{"rendered":"Obeying the rules"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Obeying the rules<br \/>\nby cricketjeff on May 2, 2014.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved<br \/>\nI wrote this poem with the sharpest pencil<br \/>\nThat they&#8217;d allow inside my padded cell<br \/>\nTo get the font I used a plastic stencil<br \/>\nWhich worked OK but has a nasty smell<\/p>\n<p>The nasty smell was really rather handy<br \/>\nIt meant I wasn&#8217;t tempted to a snack<br \/>\nSo this whole verse was penned without the candy<br \/>\nThat normally keeps what I pen on track.<\/p>\n<p>Now having settled how I have to write it<br \/>\nI better pick a subject for my rhyme<br \/>\nI&#8217;ve thought of something meaningful, I&#8217;ll fight it<br \/>\nAll poems with a message are a crime!<\/p>\n<p>What is this line &#8220;remember the four seasons&#8221;?<br \/>\nI&#8217;ve tried but I can only think of two<br \/>\nThat&#8217;s salt and pepper, any more are treasons<br \/>\nAgainst good taste, I don&#8217;t like things too new.<\/p>\n<p>My nurse is here, I need my daily shocking,<br \/>\nBut I&#8217;ll be back to finish this, maybe<br \/>\nBefore the ticking clocks have finished tocking<br \/>\nBut not until I&#8217;ve had a cup of tea!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Obeying the rules by cricketjeff on May 2, 2014.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved I wrote this poem with the sharpest pencil That they&#8217;d allow inside my padded cell To get the font I used a plastic stencil Which worked OK but has a nasty smell The nasty smell was really rather handy It [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":9732,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-5444","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5444","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=5444"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5444\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6064,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5444\/revisions\/6064"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}