{"id":5511,"date":"2023-11-26T20:25:30","date_gmt":"2023-11-26T20:25:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=5511"},"modified":"2023-11-28T22:53:32","modified_gmt":"2023-11-28T22:53:32","slug":"pound-for-glory","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/p-poems\/pound-for-glory\/","title":{"rendered":"Pound for Glory!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Pound for Glory!<br \/>\nby cricketjeff on September 12, 2015.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved<br \/>\nI fancy a beigel with salt-beef, no mustard<br \/>\nOr a bowl full of ice-cream, stewed apples and custard<br \/>\nThe foods that I love can be found all around,<br \/>\nBut DAMN-IT! I&#8217;ve put on a pound<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0 \u00a0Each Wednesday we weigh-in to see who&#8217;s got thinner<br \/>\n\u00a0 \u00a0By cutting out biscuits and eating less dinner<br \/>\n\u00a0 \u00a0Then some weeks I look for a hole in the ground<br \/>\n\u00a0 \u00a0When DAMN-IT I&#8217;ve put on a pound!<\/p>\n<p>I love to make chocolates with all sorts of filling<br \/>\nThen look for some eaters, most colleagues are willing<br \/>\nBut though I don&#8217;t eat-em I&#8217;ve frequently found<br \/>\nThat DAMN-IT! I&#8217;ve put on a pound<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0 \u00a0We put up a chart with the weights we&#8217;ve recorded<br \/>\n\u00a0 \u00a0That tell of the foodstuffs our bodies have hoarded<br \/>\n\u00a0 \u00a0And when people read it just wait for the sound<br \/>\n\u00a0 \u00a0Of DAMN-IT! I&#8217;ve put on a pound<\/p>\n<p>Then I&#8217;ll bake a cake with some quite fancy icing<br \/>\nFor queues of my friends who&#8217;ll be &#8220;don&#8217;t ask me twice&#8221;-ing<br \/>\nIgnoring the truth that they&#8217;re all of them bound<br \/>\nFor DAMN-IT! I&#8217;ve put on a pound<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0 \u00a0I&#8217;ve written this ditty that&#8217;s chock full of eating<br \/>\n\u00a0 \u00a0Containing a warning that&#8217;s well worth repeating<br \/>\n\u00a0 \u00a0And stood on the scales you may find that I&#8217;ve frowned<br \/>\n\u00a0 \u00a0Just reading it&#8217;s added a pound!<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pound for Glory! by cricketjeff on September 12, 2015.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved I fancy a beigel with salt-beef, no mustard Or a bowl full of ice-cream, stewed apples and custard The foods that I love can be found all around, But DAMN-IT! I&#8217;ve put on a pound \u00a0 \u00a0Each Wednesday we weigh-in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":9734,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-5511","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5511","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=5511"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5511\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5998,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5511\/revisions\/5998"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}