{"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<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"660\" height=\"372\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/chyaEaMWiQg?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-GB&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/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_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"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_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7EI4f-8H","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3764,"url":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/those-folk-in-their-high-towers\/","url_meta":{"origin":539,"position":0},"title":"Those Folk in their High Towers","author":"Tom\u00e1s \u00d3 C\u00e1rthaigh","date":"15th June 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"They look down on those below: Who look up at them Who live in their high towers... 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A bit bitter after hearing a fellow poet dismiss men's romantic verse as \"cheesy\", I thought\u00a0how the shaggers \/ fuckers call them what you will, win and the decent folk are cast aside in these common times... Karl Marx said religion was the\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Moral&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Moral","link":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/category\/moral\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"In the game of love, the act that should be the last, is now the opening salvo. 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