{"id":1648,"date":"2023-11-08T12:43:08","date_gmt":"2023-11-08T18:43:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.therandompoet.com\/poems\/?p=1648"},"modified":"2025-01-31T13:23:41","modified_gmt":"2025-01-31T19:23:41","slug":"jiggs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.therandompoet.com\/poems\/2023\/11\/08\/jiggs\/","title":{"rendered":"My Ol&#8217; Friend Jiggs"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>(Chorus) <br>Once was a dog, his name was Jiggs.  <br>Big as an elephant, eats like a pig. <br>Barks real loud when he gets real mad. <br>Cries like a baby when he gets real sad.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One day Jiggs went for a walk.  <br>Tried to eat a chicken and it started to squawk.  <br>Then Jiggs got stung on his butt by bee.  <br>When he ran away he ran into a tree.  (chorus) <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One day Jiggs went down to the lake.  <br>He jumped right in &#8211; got bit by a snake. <br>Was bit on the butt &#8211; got big and black <br>so Jiggs went home and never went back. (chorus)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One day Jiggs found a great big bone. <br>Looked real tasty &#8211; tried to take it home. <br>But poor ol&#8217; Jiggs made a big mistake. <br>It was part of the leg of a bull named Jake. (chorus)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So Jiggs took off, he ran really fast. <br>He ran through the fields and he ran through the grass.   <br>He ran like a bunny, fast as can be.  <br>And he ran right back into that same ol&#8217; tree.  (chorus) <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As time went on, Jiggs got kinda&#8217; old. <br>Didn&#8217;t roam as much, stayed close to home.  <br>On some days Jiggs would just take a nap,  <br>lie down next to me, put his head on my lap. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Once was a dog, his name was Jiggs. <br>Big as an elephant, eats like a pig. <br>Barks real loud when he gets real mad. <br>And when Jiggs passed away, I got real sad.   <br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(The Random Poet:110822<br>www.therandompoet.com)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Chorus) Once was a dog, his name was Jiggs. Big as an elephant, eats like a pig. Barks real loud &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.therandompoet.com\/poems\/2023\/11\/08\/jiggs\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">My Ol&#8217; Friend Jiggs<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1648","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-observations","category-ponderables"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.therandompoet.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1648","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.therandompoet.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.therandompoet.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therandompoet.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therandompoet.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1648"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.therandompoet.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1648\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2670,"href":"https:\/\/www.therandompoet.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1648\/revisions\/2670"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.therandompoet.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therandompoet.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therandompoet.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}