Now if Mom hadn’t gone past three,
There wouldn’t be a Bessie;
And if not past four,
Who would draw on the door?
Why there wouldn’t even be a Perse!
(We’ll get around to that Merse.)
It could be a lot worse
What if we had no Alethea
Or no one to trouble or bother ya?
Or imagine a world without Ike!
Had to get away and take a hike;
Exercise came as a necessity
Just as regular as trip to the potty.
And what about Cea and Sem
What would we do without them?
What if no Petra for Epiphany to care?
And where Jonas without an Elli
To keep that laugh in his belly?
Well Luther came along as the latest;
Don’t know which will be the best or the basest.
Mercy and blessings come with every child
Training our tempers to be mild.
We’re gonna thank the Lord for each one
And pray they all follow the Son.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
1240 on 25 July, 2022<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Now if Mom hadn’t gone past three, There wouldn’t be a Bessie;And if not past four, Who would draw on the door? Why there wouldn’t even be a Perse! (We’ll get around to that Merse.) It could be a lot worse What if we had no Alethea Or no one to trouble or bother ya? […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[18,52,23,31],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6171"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6171"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6171\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6174,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6171\/revisions\/6174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}