{"id":92956,"date":"2012-07-17T23:08:12","date_gmt":"2012-07-18T03:08:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/92956\/poems-pool-cool-rum-numb-man-fan\/"},"modified":"2012-07-17T23:08:12","modified_gmt":"2012-07-18T03:08:12","slug":"poems-pool-cool-rum-numb-man-fan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/92956\/poems-pool-cool-rum-numb-man-fan\/","title":{"rendered":"POEMS: POOL COOL, RUM NUMB and MAN FAN"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><font face=\"arial, helvetica, sans-serif\" size=\"4\"><strong><em>These were written for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.friendburst.com\/blog\/92952\/wonderful-wednesday-beats-heat-again-2\/\">CPC Wonderful Wednesday poetry challenge<\/a>. \u00a0Host Bettie wants writes about beating the heat when there is no beach nearby.<\/em><\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/s136.photobucket.com\/albums\/q183\/scotorum\/WednesdaySunday\/?action=view&amp;current=Picture014.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/i136.photobucket.com\/albums\/q183\/scotorum\/WednesdaySunday\/Picture014.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Picture014\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><font face=\"arial, helvetica, sans-serif\" size=\"6\"><strong>POOL COOL<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><font face=\"arial, helvetica, sans-serif\" size=\"4\"><strong>Cooling in my little pool.<br \/>\nSo soothing, I can&#8217;t help but drool.<br \/>\nMom understands, has just one rule:<br \/>\nwhen other kids are in the pool,<br \/>\nwait till I&#8217;m out to drop a stool.<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><font face=\"arial, helvetica, sans-serif\" size=\"3\"><strong>Copyright July 17th 2012 RGD<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><font face=\"arial, helvetica, sans-serif\" size=\"3\"><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/s136.photobucket.com\/albums\/q183\/scotorum\/WednesdaySunday\/?action=view&amp;current=pina-colada-ananas.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i136.photobucket.com\/albums\/q183\/scotorum\/WednesdaySunday\/pina-colada-ananas.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Photobucket\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><font face=\"arial, helvetica, sans-serif\" size=\"6\"><strong>RUM NUMB<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><font face=\"arial, helvetica, sans-serif\" size=\"4\"><strong>I find one way to beat the heat<br \/>\nis from consciousness retreat.<br \/>\nI drink till I fall off my feet,<br \/>\npass out; oblivion is sweet,<br \/>\nbefore a cold front comes to greet.<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><font face=\"arial, helvetica, sans-serif\" size=\"3\"><strong>July 17th 2012 RGD<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><font face=\"arial, helvetica, sans-serif\" size=\"3\"><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/s136.photobucket.com\/albums\/q183\/scotorum\/WednesdaySunday\/?action=view&amp;current=DRIVINGTOOFAST.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i136.photobucket.com\/albums\/q183\/scotorum\/WednesdaySunday\/DRIVINGTOOFAST.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Photobucket\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><font face=\"arial, helvetica, sans-serif\" size=\"6\"><strong>MAN FAN<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><font face=\"arial, helvetica, sans-serif\" size=\"4\"><strong>When it&#8217;s too hot to walk or skip,<br \/>\nit&#8217;s time to take a little trip.<br \/>\nWith top down, steering wheel tight grip,<br \/>\naccelerate to a good clip.<br \/>\nJust try not to make a blip<br \/>\non radar, or the spell will rip.<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><font face=\"arial, helvetica, sans-serif\" size=\"3\"><strong>July 17th 2012 RGD<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These were written for the CPC Wonderful Wednesday poetry challenge. \u00a0Host Bettie wants writes about beating the heat when there is no beach nearby. POOL COOL Cooling in my little pool. So soothing, I can&#8217;t help but drool. Mom understands, has just one rule: when other kids are in the pool, wait till I&#8217;m out [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-92956","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poems"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92956","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92956"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92956\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}