{"id":14548,"date":"2003-10-06T12:59:00","date_gmt":"2003-10-06T12:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2003\/10\/06\/w-the-poet\/"},"modified":"2003-10-06T12:59:00","modified_gmt":"2003-10-06T12:59:00","slug":"w-the-poet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2003\/10\/06\/w-the-poet\/","title":{"rendered":"W The Poet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>First Lady Laura Bush reveals that W &ldquo;is a great leader and a husband, but I bet you didn&rsquo;t know he is also quite the poet.  Upon returning home last night from my long trip <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2003\/ALLPOLITICS\/10\/03\/bush.poem.ap\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">I found a lovely poem waiting there for me.<\/a>&rdquo;  Here it is:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Roses are red<br \/>\n<br \/>Violets are blue<br \/>\n<br \/>Oh my, lump in the bed<br \/>\n<br \/>How I&rsquo;ve missed you.<\/p>\n<p>Roses are redder<br \/>\n<br \/>Bluer am I<br \/>\n<br \/>Seeing you kissed<br \/>\n<br \/>By that charming French guy.<\/p>\n<p>The dogs and the cats<br \/>\n<br \/>They missed you too<br \/>\n<br \/>Barney&rsquo;s still mad you dropped him<br \/>\n<br \/>He ate your shoe.<\/p>\n<p>The distance, my dear<br \/>\n<br \/>Has been such a barrier<br \/>\n<br \/>Next time you want an adventure<br \/>\n<br \/>Just land on a carrier.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I wish I was making this up, but even I couldn&rsquo;t come up with something like this.  Now maybe a gifted five-year old could, but that&rsquo;s another story altogether&hellip; :-p<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/3501955-106544485552969591?l=www.driko.org%2Findex_blogger.html\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First Lady Laura Bush reveals that W &ldquo;is a great leader and a husband, but I bet you didn&rsquo;t know he is also quite the poet. Upon returning home last night from my long trip I found a lovely poem waiting there for me.&rdquo; Here it is: Roses are red Violets are blue Oh my, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2003\/10\/06\/w-the-poet\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;W The Poet&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[118],"class_list":["post-14548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-imported"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14548","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14548"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14548\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}