Pumpkin Wife<\/p>\n
Peter, Peter, pumpkin eater You may think it isn\u2019t very nice Some balk at the idea that I am a prisoner here You should\u2019ve seen the potato we were living in before!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Pumpkin Wife Peter, Peter, pumpkin eater Had a wife and couldn\u2019t keep her Put her in a pumpkin shell And there he kept her very well You may think it isn\u2019t very nice Living in a pumpkin shell But once you shellac the inside, Getting…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1047,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40469","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\/1047"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40469"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40469\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40474,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40469\/revisions\/40474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nHad a wife and couldn\u2019t keep her
\nPut her in a pumpkin shell
\nAnd there he kept her very well<\/em><\/p>\n
\nLiving in a pumpkin shell
\nBut once you shellac the inside,
\nGetting rid of the basic sliminess,
\nIt isn\u2019t that bad
\nThe walls are wholly carvable
\nI\u2019ve made all sorts of brackets
\nand shelves and windows
\nIt\u2019s a sweet little home now
\nQuite cozy in fact
\nThe thick rind keeps out the cold
\nYet is quite cool on the hottest days<\/p>\n
\nNot true!
\nI can come and go as I please
\nIt just pleases me to stay,
\nnow that we have a comfortable home<\/p>\n