{"id":67234,"date":"2020-06-27T15:30:37","date_gmt":"2020-06-27T19:30:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=67234"},"modified":"2020-06-28T10:05:49","modified_gmt":"2020-06-28T14:05:49","slug":"season-of-the-silly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/season-of-the-silly\/","title":{"rendered":"Season of the Silly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Silly summer sweaty season <\/p>\n<p>Jamming full the plane <\/p>\n<p>Somewhere hot, don\u2019t care a jot <\/p>\n<p>That each year is just the same <\/p>\n<p>Swarming off the aircraft <\/p>\n<p>Sweating something chronic <\/p>\n<p>Tattoo Tank-top up the front <\/p>\n<p>Screaming \u201cWhere&#8217;s Mummies Vodka Tonic\u201d <\/p>\n<p>A promising start you will agree <\/p>\n<p>A chance for British Envoys <\/p>\n<p>To Explore the world Cos back home its cold <\/p>\n<p>So we\u2019re fleeing it in convoys <\/p>\n<p>Found the bags but bloody hell <\/p>\n<p>The Booking infos vanished <\/p>\n<p>Could ask for help, but probably not <\/p>\n<p>We\u2019re British, Don\u2019t speak Spanish <\/p>\n<p>A bulging, burping peeling horde <\/p>\n<p>Of lads bags tramps and louts <\/p>\n<p>With fags in hand, ill fitting tops <\/p>\n<p>With tits that&#8217;ve fallen out <\/p>\n<p>A whole new world we could explore <\/p>\n<p>But the food is weird and smelly <\/p>\n<p>SO what did you do in Lanzerote <\/p>\n<p>I fucking watched the telly <\/p>\n<p>Football, Tennis, even golf <\/p>\n<p>In the bars its always on <\/p>\n<p>It may have escaped your notice <\/p>\n<p>Back home is also shown <\/p>\n<p>Why drag your ass from out your chair <\/p>\n<p>And inflict yourself on Spain <\/p>\n<p>If you only sit in bars, swear at football stars <\/p>\n<p>Then Fuck off home again <\/p>\n<p>But when the sun goes down <\/p>\n<p>Screaming kids gone off to sleep <\/p>\n<p>You get your party outfit on <\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s enough to make you weep <\/p>\n<p>But I hate to burst your bubble <\/p>\n<p>I\u2019d hate to think this wrecks it <\/p>\n<p>But you can\u2019t afford the drink here now <\/p>\n<p>Cos you voted bloody Brexit <\/p>\n<p>So climb back on the aeroplane <\/p>\n<p>Your skin red, charred to death <\/p>\n<p>Next year, I think we\u2019ll stay at home <\/p>\n<p>And ruin Blackpools week instead <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Silly summer sweaty season Jamming full the plane Somewhere hot, don\u2019t care a jot That each year is just the same Swarming off the aircraft Sweating something chronic Tattoo Tank-top up the front Screaming \u201cWhere&#8217;s Mummies Vodka Tonic\u201d A promising start you will agree A&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1484,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67234","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\/1484"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67234"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67234\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67246,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67234\/revisions\/67246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}