{"id":2257,"date":"2010-11-21T23:21:59","date_gmt":"2010-11-21T22:21:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikecampworld.com\/blog\/?p=2257"},"modified":"2010-11-21T23:23:27","modified_gmt":"2010-11-21T22:23:27","slug":"harry-the-grumpy-parrots-response-to-toy-town-christmas-lights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikecampworld.com\/blog\/2010\/11\/21\/harry-the-grumpy-parrots-response-to-toy-town-christmas-lights\/","title":{"rendered":"Harry the Grumpy Parrot&#8217;s Response to Toy Town Christmas Lights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<figure id=\"attachment_1651\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1651\" style=\"width: 216px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mikecampworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/parrot1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1651\" title=\"Harry the grumpy parrot\" src=\"https:\/\/mikecampworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/parrot1-216x300.jpg\" alt=\"Harry the grumpy parrot\" width=\"216\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mikecampworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/parrot1-216x300.jpg 216w, https:\/\/mikecampworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/parrot1-737x1024.jpg 737w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 216px) 100vw, 216px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1651\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Harry the grumpy parrot<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">The Christmas lights flicker in the sky<br \/>\nCredit card bills now get very high<br \/>\nAll across the land, shops open early morn<br \/>\nThis comes to pass when a child is born<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Children wish for toys with high fees<br \/>\nPeople pushing and feeling ill at ease<br \/>\nChristmas shoppers crumble, tossed and torn<br \/>\nThis comes to pass when a child is born<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Sneezes and coughs and people push around<br \/>\nYou&#8217;ve got the feel you&#8217;re slipping on icey ground<br \/>\nThe crowds about, make people feel forlorn<br \/>\nThis comes to pass when a child is born<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">And all of this happens because the world is waiting<br \/>\nWaiting for Christmas<br \/>\nBlack, white, yellow, no-one knows<br \/>\nBut a child that will grow up and turn tears to laughter<br \/>\nAnd to celebrate \u00a0everyone will spend loads in a consumer rush<br \/>\nAnd town centres will be full of misery and suffering<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Christmas day still seems far from now<br \/>\nBut in the shops it comes early somehow<br \/>\nAll across the land, shopping continuously makes us yawn<br \/>\nThis comes to pass when a child is born<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Toy Town christmas lights got switched on today. Harry is not impressed&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[451,161],"class_list":["post-2257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-grumpy-parrot","tag-christmas","tag-taunton"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikecampworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2257","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikecampworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikecampworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikecampworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikecampworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2257"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mikecampworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2257\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2259,"href":"https:\/\/mikecampworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2257\/revisions\/2259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikecampworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikecampworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikecampworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}