{"id":96,"date":"2010-09-17T08:57:35","date_gmt":"2010-09-17T14:57:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.shadowkatmandu.net\/?p=96"},"modified":"2010-09-17T08:57:35","modified_gmt":"2010-09-17T14:57:35","slug":"friday-poetry-eggs-act-changed-please","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.shadowkatmandu.net\/?p=96","title":{"rendered":"Friday Poetry &#8212; Eggs Act Changed, Please!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Eggs Act Change, Please!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>When I was a child<br \/>\nLanguage was so confusing<br \/>\nMy ears would hear<br \/>\nBut comprehension was refusing<\/p>\n<p>Once I got on a bus<br \/>\nAnd my mama, she said<br \/>\n&#8220;Eggs Act Changed, Please!&#8221;<br \/>\nThat&#8217;s what I heard in my head<\/p>\n<p>She was reading a sign<br \/>\nWe have all seen before<br \/>\nIt was bizarre to me<br \/>\nAt the age of four<\/p>\n<p>Later on in life<br \/>\nI knew what was meant<br \/>\nI read it myself<br \/>\nI didn&#8217;t need a hint<\/p>\n<p>But still later on<br \/>\nI came to conclude<br \/>\nThe sign was quite wrong<br \/>\nAnd a bit rude<\/p>\n<p>In our journey through life<br \/>\nNo change is ever exact<br \/>\nWhether it&#8217;s leftover coins<br \/>\nOr a difference we enact<\/p>\n<p>So I went into old age<br \/>\nNever accepting precision<br \/>\nForever feeling exact change<br \/>\nWas the poorest decision<\/p>\n<p>Bus drivers would yell<br \/>\nToll booth operators frowned<br \/>\nBut I remained happy<br \/>\nAll frowns upside downed<\/p>\n<p>When finally I passed<br \/>\nI was surprised to find<br \/>\nNo pearly gates, no hellish fires<br \/>\nNothing of the kind<\/p>\n<p>You may know what I saw<br \/>\nAn army of eggs so vast<br \/>\nAll acting changed<br \/>\nAnd having an imprecise blast!<\/p>\n<p>****<\/p>\n<p>I hope you enjoyed my silly poetry today.  No, I never really misinterpreted an &#8220;exact change&#8221; sign, but eggs \/ ex is one of my favorite syllables to make puns from.  See you next week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eggs Act Change, Please! When I was a child Language was so confusing My ears would hear But comprehension was refusing Once I got on a bus And my mama, she said &#8220;Eggs Act Changed, Please!&#8221; That&#8217;s what I heard in my head She was reading a sign We have all seen before It was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.shadowkatmandu.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.shadowkatmandu.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.shadowkatmandu.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.shadowkatmandu.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.shadowkatmandu.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=96"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.shadowkatmandu.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":97,"href":"https:\/\/blog.shadowkatmandu.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96\/revisions\/97"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.shadowkatmandu.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=96"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.shadowkatmandu.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=96"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.shadowkatmandu.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=96"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}