{"id":1765,"date":"2012-05-23T17:43:32","date_gmt":"2012-05-23T17:43:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/?p=1765"},"modified":"2012-05-23T17:45:18","modified_gmt":"2012-05-23T17:45:18","slug":"michael-and-his-uncle-pants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2012\/05\/michael-and-his-uncle-pants\/","title":{"rendered":"The toddler and the tortoise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When an old man meets a toddler<br \/>\nIt can be quite an affair<br \/>\nAnd Michael and me I think<br \/>\nhit it off real well<br \/>\nInquisitive and boisterous<br \/>\ninventive and creative<br \/>\na bundle of pure energy<br \/>\nI fell<br \/>\nhopelessly in love with him<br \/>\nand really<br \/>\nwe had our ups and downs<br \/>\nBut what I found<br \/>\nwas Michael has humility<br \/>\nbeyond his tiny years<br \/>\nand I think he&#8217;s the nicest boy<br \/>\naround<br \/>\nSure he gave me stick<br \/>\nHe kicked and punched me<br \/>\nBut in his heart<br \/>\nHe&#8217;s working out his way<br \/>\nHe&#8217;s all wound up<br \/>\nand really going places<br \/>\nAnd he fills his waking hours<br \/>\nwith lots of play<br \/>\nHe&#8217;s just so fast<br \/>\nand me a poor old tortoise<br \/>\nBut then the tortoise<br \/>\nhas a good tough shell<br \/>\nAnd though he tries<br \/>\nto get his where for all with me<br \/>\non balance we seem equal<br \/>\nand that&#8217;s swell.<\/p>\n<p>(He is my best friend&#8217;s first child<br \/>\nand I spent many hours playing with him<br \/>\nover the last 2 months which on reflection<br \/>\ntaught me a great deal)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Toddler and the Tortoise <a href=\"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2012\/05\/michael-and-his-uncle-pants\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[89],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-australia-and-the-epic-journeys"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1765","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1765"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1765\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1769,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1765\/revisions\/1769"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}