{"id":3432,"date":"2016-12-24T20:11:15","date_gmt":"2016-12-24T20:11:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.writingsinrhyme.com\/?p=3432"},"modified":"2016-12-24T20:13:00","modified_gmt":"2016-12-24T20:13:00","slug":"once-upon-a-time-in-ballinasloe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/once-upon-a-time-in-ballinasloe\/","title":{"rendered":"Once Upon A Time in Ballinasloe"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Where<\/a>
Where our hero was Born…<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Once upon a time in Ballinasloe
\nBollick naked our hero was seen
\nLying in a mess of his own making
\nBawling relentless at the poor nurses he had been<\/p>\n

Not able to string two words together
\nIn Portniuncula Hospital that December morn
\nBut in all fairness there are mitigations:
\nSure the poor fecker was but born!<\/p>\n

No manger story in Ballinasloe
\nNo bright star and three wise men
\nForty years later, out to celebrate
\nHeres hoping hes not back there that way again!!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Once upon a time in Ballinasloe Bollick naked our hero was seen Lying in a mess of his own making Bawling relentless at the poor nurses he had been Not able to string two words together In Portniuncula Hospital that December morn But in all fairness there are mitigations: Sure …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,89],"tags":[1055,3406,93],"class_list":["post-3432","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family-stories","category-funny-poems","tag-ballinasloe","tag-born-in-ballinasloe","tag-funny-poem","column","twocol"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7EI4f-Tm","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5088,"url":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/a-great-place-to-go-mad\/","url_meta":{"origin":3432,"position":0},"title":"A Great Place to Go Mad","author":"Tom\u00e1s \u00d3 C\u00e1rthaigh","date":"14th October 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"Background: I grew up with stories of my father on his honeymoon on the west coast describing it as \"a great place to go mad\". 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