{"id":2702,"date":"2010-11-27T00:52:05","date_gmt":"2010-11-27T00:52:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/?p=2702"},"modified":"2010-11-28T00:04:21","modified_gmt":"2010-11-28T00:04:21","slug":"inliwrimo-27","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/2010\/11\/inliwrimo-27\/","title":{"rendered":"InLiWriMo #27"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>A young lad from way out of town<br \/>\nJust couldn&#8217;t hold any job down,<br \/>\nTry as he might<br \/>\nTo hold on real tight,<br \/>\nEmployment, he let himself down.<\/p>\n<p>The young lad turned into a geezer<br \/>\nAnd met a nice girl called Theresa,<br \/>\nThey shagged and shacked up<br \/>\nRaised several pups,<br \/>\nAnd fed them on chips from the freezer.<\/p>\n<p>But ambitions inside him still burned,<br \/>\nAnd the geezer became quite concerned,<br \/>\nHe longed for the day<br \/>\nHe&#8217;d collect full pay<br \/>\nFor a hard-working week, money earned.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Theresa,&#8221; he said, &#8220;I must find<br \/>\nA role of the fully paid kind,<br \/>\nFor this life of less<br \/>\nCauses such duress<br \/>\nThat I&#8217;m slowly going out of my mind!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He set off to put this to rights.<br \/>\nOne week, seven days, seven nights<br \/>\nHe knocked upon doors,<br \/>\nHe mopped up wet floors;<br \/>\nA career of respectable heights,<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Til exhausted, he barely could stand<br \/>\nBut finally, held in his hand<br \/>\nThe scant wages of graft,<br \/>\nAnd oh, how he laughed &#8211;<br \/>\nFor it was so much less than he&#8217;d planned.<\/p>\n<p>He returned to his wife and his sprogs,<br \/>\nAnd was greeted with bread, beer and snogs,<br \/>\nHe explained that he&#8217;d learned<br \/>\nYou must never return<br \/>\nIf you&#8217;re valued no better than dogs.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/jcorrius\/3372797504\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3659\/3372797504_5ac3acf10e.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A young lad from way out of town Just couldn&#8217;t hold any job down, Try as he might To hold on real tight, Employment, he let himself down. The young lad turned into a geezer And met a nice girl called Theresa, They shagged and shacked up Raised several pups, And fed them on chips [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":126,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[153],"tags":[458,791],"class_list":["post-2702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writing","tag-limerick","tag-work"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2702","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/126"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2702"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2702\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2723,"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2702\/revisions\/2723"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}