{"id":5740,"date":"2023-11-26T20:24:54","date_gmt":"2023-11-26T20:24:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=5740"},"modified":"2023-11-28T22:47:39","modified_gmt":"2023-11-28T22:47:39","slug":"not-as-strange-as-new-zealand","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/n-poems\/not-as-strange-as-new-zealand\/","title":{"rendered":"Not as Strange as New Zealand."},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Not as Strange as New Zealand.<br \/>\nby cricketjeff on November 15, 2021.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved<br \/>\nAustralian beasts are not just rather strange<br \/>\nTheir forms defy all fondly held beliefs.<br \/>\nIn every habitat across their range,<br \/>\nFrom sun scorched rocks to storm lashed coral reefs.<\/p>\n<p>Some look like rats but stand two meters tall,<br \/>\nWhile some are cute and sleep all day in trees.<br \/>\nAnd here perhaps the strangest beast of all<br \/>\nAn Aussie poet wandering at ease.<\/p>\n<p>With sharks and salties ever on the prowl,<br \/>\nAnd dinosaurs in everything but name,<br \/>\nWe humans should be throwing in the towel<br \/>\nNot tackling the fauna at its game.<\/p>\n<p>The only thing of which we can be sure<br \/>\nIs even stranger creatures live next door!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not as Strange as New Zealand. by cricketjeff on November 15, 2021.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved Australian beasts are not just rather strange Their forms defy all fondly held beliefs. In every habitat across their range, From sun scorched rocks to storm lashed coral reefs. Some look like rats but stand two meters [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":9730,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-5740","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5740","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=5740"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5740\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5769,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5740\/revisions\/5769"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}