{"id":5611,"date":"2023-11-26T20:25:29","date_gmt":"2023-11-26T20:25:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=5611"},"modified":"2023-11-28T22:43:48","modified_gmt":"2023-11-28T22:43:48","slug":"location-location-location","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/l-poems\/location-location-location\/","title":{"rendered":"Location Location Location"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Location Location Location<br \/>\nby cricketjeff on August 8, 2017.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved<br \/>\nThe three little pigs are grown up now,<br \/>\nNeed to set up home but don&#8217;t know how.<br \/>\nAn ebay offer may just fit<br \/>\nThe first pig&#8217;s bought a flat pack kit.<\/p>\n<p>The build goes quick so he&#8217;s out for the night<br \/>\nBut when he&#8217;s back things don&#8217;t look right.<br \/>\nThe door&#8217;s not strong it bends in the breeze<br \/>\nA hungry wolf gets in with ease!<\/p>\n<p>Our second pig says &#8220;I&#8217;m no fool&#8221;<br \/>\nHe&#8217;s bought\u00a0 his house from a friend from school<br \/>\nThe walls are old and paper thin<br \/>\nAnd two more wolves have broken in!<\/p>\n<p>These first two pigs are running fast<br \/>\nThey spot their brothers home at last.<br \/>\nHis urgent shouts rush them along<br \/>\nBut the walls and door don&#8217;t look too strong.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s nowhere else, so they rush inside<br \/>\nAnd look for places they can hide.<br \/>\nThey don&#8217;t understand their brother&#8217;s smile<br \/>\nHe&#8217;s picked his home with loads of guile.<\/p>\n<p>Ignoring squeals of raw alarm<br \/>\nHe makes them tea and seems so calm<br \/>\nHe tells his brothers &#8220;I&#8217;m smarter than you<br \/>\nThe caf\u00e9 next door sells Korean dog stew!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p> Author notes<br \/>\nThe three most important things to consider when buying a house are allegedly<br \/>\n&#8220;location location location&#8221;<br \/>\nThis is a reworking of a longer poem I wrote many years ago to fit the contest<br \/>\nrules of under 200 words I think there are 181 words retelling the tale of the<br \/>\n&#8220;Three Little Pigs&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Location Location Location by cricketjeff on August 8, 2017.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved The three little pigs are grown up now, Need to set up home but don&#8217;t know how. An ebay offer may just fit The first pig&#8217;s bought a flat pack kit. The build goes quick so he&#8217;s out for the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":9726,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-5611","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5611","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=5611"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5611\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5897,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5611\/revisions\/5897"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}