{"id":37230,"date":"2017-08-05T18:22:23","date_gmt":"2017-08-05T22:22:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=37230"},"modified":"2017-08-05T18:49:06","modified_gmt":"2017-08-05T22:49:06","slug":"ten-nonsense-on-the-farm-a-sonnet-sort-of","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/ten-nonsense-on-the-farm-a-sonnet-sort-of\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Ten &#8211; Nonsense on the Farm. A Sonnet. Sort Of.&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Ten little cabbages. Ten little pink pigs.<br \/>\nTen times the whistle-man, whittled whistle twigs.<br \/>\nWhistle for the pigs, boy, whistle for the pigs.<br \/>\nWhistle till the cows come home, wearing piggy wigs.<\/p>\n<p>Ten great big cabbages. Ten chickens lay eggs.<br \/>\nEverything time a chicken lays, the whistle-man begs.<br \/>\nBegs for an omelet. Begs for dancing eggs.<br \/>\nBegs for the cows to come, dancing on two legs.<\/p>\n<p>Why not a rooster? Why not a hen?<br \/>\nWhy not a rabbit-pirate, shooting up the pen?<br \/>\nWhy does the whistle-man whistle piggies in?<br \/>\nWhere has the rooster gone? How high? And when?<\/p>\n<p>Ten little dancing piggies, et up all the omelets.<br \/>\nI wish they&#8217;d et up all these words, then they&#8217;d make sense.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Ten little cabbages. Ten little pink pigs. Ten times the whistle-man, whittled whistle twigs. Whistle for the pigs, boy, whistle for the pigs. Whistle till the cows come home, wearing piggy wigs. Ten great big cabbages. Ten chickens lay eggs. Everything time a chicken&#8230;<\/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-37230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37230","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=37230"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37230\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37474,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37230\/revisions\/37474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}