{"id":647,"date":"2017-01-26T10:41:01","date_gmt":"2017-01-26T18:41:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ericidle.com\/blog\/?p=647"},"modified":"2017-01-26T10:41:01","modified_gmt":"2017-01-26T18:41:01","slug":"the-address-to-the-weetabix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ericidle.com\/blog\/the-address-to-the-weetabix\/","title":{"rendered":"The Address to The Weetabix."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Address to the Weetabix.<br \/>\n                                   Candacraig &#8211;   August 1999<\/p>\n<p>Fair fa your honest crunchy face<br \/>\nGreat chieftain o\u2019 the breakfast place<br \/>\nYon Weetabix wi\u2019 prickly bricks<br \/>\nWi\u2019 milk poured ower<br \/>\nTae mek a grizzly mix.<\/p>\n<p>Yon hairy food for thee I do forsake<br \/>\nThe coco-pop and lowly corn flake<br \/>\nYea hairy food, rude and no disgrace<br \/>\nLike a beard on a Scotsman\u2019s face<br \/>\nYon mucky muesli is far too foreign<br \/>\nGive me the food that looks like a sporran<\/p>\n<p>Though we acknowledge the fabled porridge<br \/>\nAnd raise a dram to cheery Spam<br \/>\nThere\u2019s nobbit pleases wee Billy and Pam<br \/>\nThan Weetabix served by the gram (with a dram)<\/p>\n<p>Yea muesli now that\u2019s foreign muck<br \/>\nThat looks like straw and tastes like.. f&#8230; duck<br \/>\nAnd yoghurt yuck it\u2019s vile and bitter<br \/>\nAnd has a use that\u2019s far more fitter<br \/>\nLet me add one final bitching<br \/>\nWhat can one say about a breakfast food<br \/>\nThat cures vaginal itching?<\/p>\n<p>A poet might well become depressed<br \/>\nTo find a food category Robin Williams<br \/>\nHasn\u2019t already addressed<br \/>\nSo here\u2019s my broken shredded wit<br \/>\nThe Weetabix is aptly fit<br \/>\nTo grace our table aye so sweet<br \/>\nGod bless us all and shredded wheat.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\tEric Idle<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Address to the Weetabix. Candacraig &#8211; August 1999 Fair fa your honest crunchy face Great chieftain o\u2019 the breakfast place Yon Weetabix wi\u2019 prickly bricks Wi\u2019 milk poured ower Tae mek a grizzly mix. Yon hairy food for thee I do forsake The coco-pop and lowly corn flake Yea hairy food, rude and no [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-647","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericidle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericidle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericidle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericidle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericidle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=647"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericidle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":648,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericidle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647\/revisions\/648"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericidle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericidle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericidle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}