{"id":25651,"date":"1980-12-11T12:27:58","date_gmt":"1980-12-11T12:27:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bohemiavillage.com\/?p=25651"},"modified":"2013-07-09T17:23:13","modified_gmt":"2013-07-09T16:23:13","slug":"elizabeth-preston-the-housewifes-lament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bohemiavillage.com\/?p=25651","title":{"rendered":"Elizabeth Preston &#8211; &#8220;The Housewife&#8217;s Lament&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From\u00a0<a title=\"Bohemia Bouquet\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bohemiavillage.com\/?p=25494\"><em>Bohemian Bouquet<\/em><\/a>, published 1980 by The Bohemians.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Housewife\u2019s Lament<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I cannot play an instrument<br \/>\nTo make a joyful sound.<br \/>\nI cannot sing so tunefully<br \/>\nThat people gather round.<br \/>\nI cannot write a novel<br \/>\nWhich will earn me pounds and pounds.<br \/>\nI cannot, like some artists,<br \/>\nPaint a picture to astound.<br \/>\nI cannot solve maths problems<br \/>\nMy brain they always tease.<br \/>\nI cannot tell the capitals<br \/>\nOf countries overseas.<br \/>\nI cannot tell the dates of wars<br \/>\nOr when they made their peace.<br \/>\nI cannot speak in foreign tongues<br \/>\nOr pass exams, with ease.<br \/>\nI cannot run a mile or more<br \/>\nOr swim across a lake.<br \/>\nI cannot ride on horse-back<br \/>\nThe thought just makes me quake.<br \/>\nI cannot do the high jump<br \/>\nThe prize I\u2019d never take<br \/>\nI cannot toss the caber<br \/>\nBut<br \/>\nI CAN BAKE A CAKE!<\/p>\n<p>Elizabeth Preston<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From\u00a0Bohemian Bouquet, published 1980 by The Bohemians. &nbsp; The Housewife\u2019s Lament I cannot play an instrument To make a joyful sound. I cannot sing so tunefully That people gather round. I cannot write a novel Which will earn me&#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bohemiavillage.com\/?p=25651\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[243,109],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bohemiavillage.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25651"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bohemiavillage.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bohemiavillage.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bohemiavillage.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bohemiavillage.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25651"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.bohemiavillage.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25651\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27048,"href":"http:\/\/www.bohemiavillage.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25651\/revisions\/27048"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bohemiavillage.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bohemiavillage.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bohemiavillage.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}