{"id":27178,"date":"2016-08-14T03:42:39","date_gmt":"2016-08-14T07:42:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=27178"},"modified":"2016-08-14T03:42:39","modified_gmt":"2016-08-14T07:42:39","slug":"lester","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/lester\/","title":{"rendered":"Lester"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>There once was a man named Chester,<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Who had a parrot called Lester.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>They went for a ride to Dover<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>and ended up getting pulled over.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>The officer walked up right away<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>And asked Chester what he had to say, <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>As Chester opened his mouth to speak,<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Lester replied, \u201cFuck you, Pardon me!\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>The officer was nice and asked him twice,<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Lester responsed \u201cFuck what? EXCUSE Me!\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Chester tried in vain to explain, but <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>The officer was quite put out, <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>I\u2019m taking you in, he said with no grin and<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Don\u2019t you know that damn bird said, again<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cFucking Thank you!\u201d with a sneer and poo.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>The judge asked, what should I do with you?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0Is there something wrong with your head?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cWell, How the fuck are you?\u201d Lester said.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0as they took them a way, he told the court,<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cHave a Fucking nice day.\u201d And shat on the door.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Sitting in the cell, side by side, Chester looked over<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0What you say now you\u2019ve got us in trouble?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Lester shook his head and puffed his chest,<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>And squawked, \u201cWelcome home. Chester\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Tucked his head under his wing and went to sleep.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><br \/>\nLester<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Lue<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>August 14, 2016<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There once was a man named Chester, Who had a parrot called Lester. \u00a0 They went for a ride to Dover and ended up getting pulled over. \u00a0 The officer walked up right away And asked Chester what he had to say, \u00a0 As Chester&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":291,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,441],"tags":[2002,965,2001],"class_list":["post-27178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-poetry-prompt-responses","tag-cussing","tag-humor","tag-parrot"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27178","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/291"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27178"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27178\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27186,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27178\/revisions\/27186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}