{"id":5687,"date":"2023-11-26T20:25:28","date_gmt":"2023-11-26T20:25:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=5687"},"modified":"2023-11-28T22:00:01","modified_gmt":"2023-11-28T22:00:01","slug":"in-praise-of-alfred-bird","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/i-poems\/in-praise-of-alfred-bird\/","title":{"rendered":"In Praise of Alfred Bird"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> In Praise of Alfred Bird<br \/>\nby cricketjeff on August 17, 2019.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved<br \/>\nWas Alfred Bird a god? I need to know<br \/>\nFor it was he who gave use what they eat<br \/>\nHis product gives the World a healthy glow<br \/>\nAnd adds the final touch to any sweet<\/p>\n<p>Was Alfred Bird the greatest man to live?<br \/>\nWithout his work few men would ever smile<br \/>\nA portion (not to small) will always give<br \/>\nThe saddest man a brief excuse to smile<\/p>\n<p>Was Alfred Bird received at Heaven&#8217;s gate<br \/>\nBy Saints in awe all down on bended knee?<br \/>\nSome Christian fools insist that men must wait<br \/>\nThat rule could surely not apply to he<\/p>\n<p>So Alfred Bird I offer you a toast<br \/>\nBut not in wine you wouldn&#8217;t think that right<br \/>\nTo he who owns our species&#8217; greatest boast<br \/>\nI raise my custard bowl &#8220;To you &#8211; Good Night&#8221;<\/p>\n<p> Author notes<br \/>\nAlfred Bird, in 1837, invented custard powder.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Praise of Alfred Bird by cricketjeff on August 17, 2019.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved Was Alfred Bird a god? I need to know For it was he who gave use what they eat His product gives the World a healthy glow And adds the final touch to any sweet Was Alfred Bird [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":9718,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-5687","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5687","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=5687"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5687\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5821,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5687\/revisions\/5821"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}