{"id":12027,"date":"2022-09-23T11:56:36","date_gmt":"2022-09-23T10:56:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stuartpoetry.art\/?p=12027"},"modified":"2022-09-23T11:59:33","modified_gmt":"2022-09-23T10:59:33","slug":"the-owl-and-the-pussycat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/2022\/09\/23\/the-owl-and-the-pussycat\/","title":{"rendered":"The Owl and the Pussycat"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>The Owl and the Pussy-cat went to sea<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0In a beautiful pea-green boat,<\/div>\n<div>They took some honey, and plenty of money,<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Wrapped up in a five-pound note.<\/div>\n<div>The Owl looked up to the stars above,<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0And sang to a small guitar,<\/div>\n<div>&#8220;O lovely Pussy! O Pussy, my love,<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 What a beautiful Pussy you are,<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0You are,<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0You are!<\/div>\n<div>What a beautiful Pussy you are!&#8221;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Stan had dared Jane to walk around the library naked<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>If she did he would give her his Edward Lear first edition<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Stan was in love with Jane&#8217;s Maidenhead<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>He adored it and often wrote about it<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>He shared its beauty on free beaches<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>And likened it to a field of summer corn<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Many thought this to be an odd obsession<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>But to Stan and Jane it felt quite natural<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Jane completed her dare without incident<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>And received her cherished book<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>In return she gave Stan a plastic lobster<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Which was attached to a sea blue ribbon<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>It often accompanied him around the city<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>And when asked he explained that he disliked dogs<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Owl and the Pussy-cat went to sea \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0In a beautiful pea-green boat, They took some honey, and plenty of money, \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Wrapped up in a five-pound note. The Owl looked up to the stars above, \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0And sang to a small guitar, &#8220;O lovely Pussy! O Pussy, my love, \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 What a beautiful Pussy you are, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12027","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12027"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12027\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12031,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12027\/revisions\/12031"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}