{"id":5577,"date":"2023-11-26T20:25:29","date_gmt":"2023-11-26T20:25:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=5577"},"modified":"2023-11-28T23:04:46","modified_gmt":"2023-11-28T23:04:46","slug":"the-growing-pains-of-pets","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/the-poems\/the-growing-pains-of-pets\/","title":{"rendered":"The Growing Pains of Pets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> The Growing Pains of Pets<br \/>\nby cricketjeff on January 26, 2017.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved<br \/>\nPostman brought a parcel for us<br \/>\nCute and cuddly brontasaurus<br \/>\nFed it carrots day and nightly<br \/>\nSoon it grew quite large and sprightly<\/p>\n<p>Gave it then a richer diet<br \/>\n(Cocoa beans soon caused a riot)<br \/>\nAll these extra cal&#8217;ries flowing<br \/>\nKept out brontosaurus growing<\/p>\n<p>Years went by and she got larger<br \/>\nField of wheat a day to charge her<br \/>\nOther problems worse than that<br \/>\nOur lovely house is now a &#8220;flat&#8221;!<\/p>\n<p> Author notes<br \/>\nMy original poem didn&#8217;t meet the rules for this contest, I don&#8217;t often write in<br \/>\ntrochaic tetrameter but needs must &#8230;<br \/>\n(except the final lines &#8230;)<\/p>\n<p>(I assume that most North Americans know that over here an apartment is called<br \/>\na flat)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Growing Pains of Pets by cricketjeff on January 26, 2017.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved Postman brought a parcel for us Cute and cuddly brontasaurus Fed it carrots day and nightly Soon it grew quite large and sprightly Gave it then a richer diet (Cocoa beans soon caused a riot) All these extra [&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-5577","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5577","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=5577"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5577\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5931,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5577\/revisions\/5931"}],"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=5577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}