<\/p>\n
” ‘ate ‘im up, ‘e did,” the storyteller said,
\n‘an spat ‘is bones out wicky-ticky tat.
\n‘e hewsed ‘is skin to line ‘is truckle bed,
\n‘is tongue to scrape ‘is toes there hon the mat.
\nHit goes to show youse, hwoman, man an’ buoy,
\nthat dragons isn’t naught to trifle ’bout.
\nAn’ nuffin’ in the hworld, not purty gurl ner buoy,
\nkin stan’ ’em up agin a dragon’s snout.”<\/p>\n
“Saint George did,” so I said, “and that’s the truth.
\nHe killed himself a dragon, whiff a sword.
\nThe princess loved him, so they say, forsooth!
\nAnd George got all the girls and all the hoard!”<\/p>\n
His breath smelled like a dragon’s when he hissed,
\n” be ware the stoory-teller when ‘e’s pissed!”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
” ‘ate ‘im up, ‘e did,” the storyteller said, ‘an spat ‘is bones out wicky-ticky tat. ‘e hewsed ‘is skin to line ‘is truckle bed, ‘is tongue to scrape ‘is toes there hon the mat. Hit goes to show youse, hwoman, man an’ buoy,…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1052,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36161","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\/1052"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36161"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36161\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36170,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36161\/revisions\/36170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}