 {"id":432,"date":"2021-07-07T18:30:43","date_gmt":"2021-07-07T18:30:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ultrazaps.com\/terryblogg\/?p=432"},"modified":"2021-07-07T18:30:43","modified_gmt":"2021-07-07T18:30:43","slug":"birthday-limericks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/terry-times.com\/book\/index.php\/2021\/07\/07\/birthday-limericks\/","title":{"rendered":"Birthday Limericks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BIRTHDAY LIMERICKS<\/p>\n<p>(Cedric)<\/p>\n<p>A primate ascended a trunk<\/p>\n<p>and said : \u201cEvolution&#8217;s all bunk.<\/p>\n<p>Though it happens I&#8217;m male<\/p>\n<p>with whiskers and tail,<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m a layman disguised as a monk.<\/p>\n<p>(Bonet)<\/p>\n<p>We wanted to send you a sonnit<\/p>\n<p>or a cake with your name paintid on it<\/p>\n<p>but our speling is bad<\/p>\n<p>and wethought you&#8217;d get mad<\/p>\n<p>if we dropped out the &#8216;B&#8217; in your \u201cBonet\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>So we just didn&#8217;t send you the sonet<\/p>\n<p>or the cake with your name paintid on it<\/p>\n<p>our speling&#8217;s still bad<\/p>\n<p>but you cannot get mad<\/p>\n<p>for the &#8216;B&#8217; still remains in your &#8216;Bonet&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>(Sirikit)<\/p>\n<p>We wanted to buy you a bonnet<\/p>\n<p>but the shopkeeper said you&#8217;d have torn it<\/p>\n<p>\u201cis her head very small?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>we replied : \u201cNot at all&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>it&#8217;s three times as big as the bonnet!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>so we just didn&#8217;t buy you the bonnet<\/p>\n<p>for while donning it on you&#8217;d have torn it<\/p>\n<p>instead we did bake<\/p>\n<p>a plum centred cake<\/p>\n<p>with the head of a head-girl upon it.<\/p>\n<p>(Ingrid)<\/p>\n<p>I clearly recollect having read<\/p>\n<p>about something that Socrates said:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cif you stifle your laughter<\/p>\n<p>it will go down and after &#8211;<\/p>\n<p>wards settle inside you and spread.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>while clicking amodel chow said:<\/p>\n<p>after all that&#8217;s been written or read<\/p>\n<p>about arms, about legs,<\/p>\n<p>about chicks, about eggs<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d rather have breakfast in bed. (Chow 10 . xii . 78)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BIRTHDAY LIMERICKS (Cedric) A primate ascended a trunk and said : \u201cEvolution&#8217;s all bunk. Though it happens I&#8217;m male with whiskers and tail, I&#8217;m a layman disguised as a monk. (Bonet) We wanted to send you a sonnit or a cake with your name paintid on it but our speling is bad and wethought you&#8217;d &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/terry-times.com\/book\/index.php\/2021\/07\/07\/birthday-limericks\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Birthday Limericks&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/terry-times.com\/book\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/terry-times.com\/book\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/terry-times.com\/book\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terry-times.com\/book\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terry-times.com\/book\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=432"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/terry-times.com\/book\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/terry-times.com\/book\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terry-times.com\/book\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terry-times.com\/book\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}