{"id":348,"date":"2015-07-26T08:19:58","date_gmt":"2015-07-26T15:19:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tomswritings.lewczyk.net\/?p=348"},"modified":"2024-05-20T11:25:22","modified_gmt":"2024-05-20T18:25:22","slug":"badger-name-of-tyler-classic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lewczyk.net\/tomswritings\/?p=348","title":{"rendered":"Badger Name of Tyler [Classic] (20 line poem)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><em>Even my silly poems have gruesome endings.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Came a badger name of Tyler<br \/>\nbe a-knockin&#8217; at the door.<br \/>\nSellin&#8217; brushes from the marshes<br \/>\nhe be scrubbin&#8217; on the floor.<\/p>\n<p>Dumps a bushel full of garbage<br \/>\nto be showin&#8217; how they work.<br \/>\nBendin&#8217; over pail of water<br \/>\nhe be scrubbin&#8217; until dark.<\/p>\n<p>He be done in half a minute<br \/>\nhe be sayin&#8217; as he goes.<br \/>\nI can tell he be a-lyin&#8217;<br \/>\nby the growin&#8217; of his nose.<\/p>\n<p>Comes the Missus from the kitchen<br \/>\nseein&#8217; badger, brush, and pail,<br \/>\nGarbage soakin&#8217; into carpet<br \/>\nshe can&#8217;t help but start to wail.<\/p>\n<p>Grabs the shotgun from the closet,<br \/>\nshoots the badger in the head.<br \/>\nTakes the body to the kitchen&#8230;<br \/>\nBadger soup and homemade bread.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Even my silly poems have gruesome endings. Came a badger name of Tyler be a-knockin&#8217; at the door. Sellin&#8217; brushes from the marshes he be scrubbin&#8217; on the floor. Dumps a bushel full of garbage to be showin&#8217; how they work. Bendin&#8217; over pail of water he be scrubbin&#8217; until dark. He be done in &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/lewczyk.net\/tomswritings\/?p=348\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Badger Name of Tyler [Classic] (20 line poem)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,21,13,10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/lewczyk.net\/tomswritings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/lewczyk.net\/tomswritings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/lewczyk.net\/tomswritings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lewczyk.net\/tomswritings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lewczyk.net\/tomswritings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=348"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/lewczyk.net\/tomswritings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2518,"href":"http:\/\/lewczyk.net\/tomswritings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348\/revisions\/2518"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/lewczyk.net\/tomswritings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lewczyk.net\/tomswritings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lewczyk.net\/tomswritings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}