{"id":4852,"date":"2005-06-16T12:02:00","date_gmt":"2005-06-16T19:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/?p=4852"},"modified":"2005-06-16T12:02:00","modified_gmt":"2005-06-16T19:02:00","slug":"painting-and-boils-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/?p=4852","title":{"rendered":"Painting and Boils"},"content":{"rendered":"

Because it goes through my mind whenever I think about the fact that the painting is almost done at the new house:<\/p>\n

Bessie’s Boil<\/i>, by Robert W. Service<\/p>\n

Says I to my Missis: “Ba goom, lass! you’ve something I see, on your mind.”
\nSays she: “You are right, Sam, I’ve something. It ‘appens it’s on me be’ind.
\nA Boil as ‘ud make Job jealous. It ‘urts me no end when I sit.”
\nSays I: “Go to ‘ospittel, Missis. They might ‘ave to coot it a bit.”
\nSays she: “I just ‘ate to be showin’ the part of me person it’s at.”
\nSays I: “Don’t be fussy; them doctors see sights more ‘orrid than that.”<\/p>\n

The Rest of the Poem, and how it relates to Painting<\/a><\/p>\n

Note: This entry was originally posted on Observations Along The Road (on cahighways.org)<\/a> as this entry<\/a> by California Highway Guy. You may comment either here or there<\/a> (where there are comment(s)).<\/i><\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Because it goes through my mind whenever I think about the fact that the painting is almost done at the new house: Bessie’s Boil, by Robert W. Service Says I to my Missis: “Ba goom, lass! you’ve something I see, on your mind.” Says she: “You are right, Sam, I’ve something. It ‘appens it’s on Read More …<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[85,47,104],"class_list":["post-4852","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lj-xfer","tag-housing","tag-humor","tag-robert-w-service"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4852","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4852"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4852\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}