{"id":539,"date":"2014-09-10T02:43:52","date_gmt":"2014-09-10T02:43:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/?p=539"},"modified":"2014-09-10T02:43:52","modified_gmt":"2014-09-10T02:43:52","slug":"the-ride","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/the-ride\/","title":{"rendered":"The Ride"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Getting cleaned up to get dirty<br \/>\nThe lecherous to the uptight<br \/>\nYoung folk, auld folk, all folk<br \/>\nHoping to score tonight.<\/p>\n<p>Getting their glad rags on, shaving<br \/>\nTheir chins, their their legs and their heads<br \/>\nOther bits we wont mention<br \/>\nHoping to get some feckers into their beds.<\/p>\n<p>The pubs and clubs are heaving<br \/>\nIts a fleshpot of sin inside<br \/>\nOf scuttered feckless feckers<br \/>\nOut to get the ride!<\/p>\n<p><em>A documentary on how its done in Banagher in Co. Offaly&#8230; a.k.a Pure Mule Country!<\/em><br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Ride\" width=\"660\" height=\"371\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/chyaEaMWiQg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Getting cleaned up to get dirty The lecherous to the uptight Young folk, auld folk, all folk Hoping to score tonight. Getting their glad rags on, shaving Their chins, their their legs and their heads Other bits we wont mention Hoping to get some feckers into their beds. The pubs &#8230;<\/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":[376,7,145],"tags":[792,793,794,791],"class_list":["post-539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-funny-poems-18","category-life","category-love-poems","tag-dating","tag-dating-in-ireland","tag-the-dating-scene","tag-the-ride","column","twocol"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7EI4f-8H","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2435,"url":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/saint-fechin-was-no-feckin-saint\/","url_meta":{"origin":539,"position":0},"title":"Saint Fechin was no Feckin Saint","author":"Tom\u00e1s \u00d3 C\u00e1rthaigh","date":"17th December 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"Saint Fechin was a feckin fecker That bigger feckers made a saint Prayed for a plague to plague the poor: The fecker: a saint he aint! 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