{"id":2882,"date":"2025-11-09T11:20:31","date_gmt":"2025-11-09T11:20:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bobboydpoems.com\/little-jack-horner\/"},"modified":"2025-11-09T11:20:31","modified_gmt":"2025-11-09T11:20:31","slug":"little-jack-horner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/little-jack-horner\/","title":{"rendered":"Little Jack Horner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Little Jack Horner sat in a corner of a grocery store<br>\neating a plum pie he ripped off from the bakery.<br>\nWhen he put in his thumb and pulled out a plum<br>\nand claimed he was a good boy,<br>\nStore Security caught the theft on a store security camera.<br>\nThey hauled that bad boy, a 21-year-old repeat offender,<br>\noff to the pokey where he spent 30 days and then more<br>\nfor stealing an inmate&#8217;s pumpkin pie. <\/p>\n<p>When he was sprung from the pokey, he went back to<br>\nthe grocery stores and stole six more pies<br>\nand had to appear before a judge in court.<\/p>\n<p>Because the judge thought Jack Horner\u2019s pie kleptomania was nuts,<br>\ninstead of putting him back in the pokey, he sentenced him<br>\nto immediate counseling.<\/p>\n<p>A year later Jack Honer was cured of pie stealing obsession.<br>\nAnd this might be only coincidental, but the grocery store<br>\nwhere Jack Honer stole all his pies from, now can\u2019t<br>\naccount for all the missing cookies. <\/p>\n<p>Bob Boyd<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Little Jack Horner sat in a corner of a grocery store eating a plum pie he ripped off from the bakery. When he put in his thumb and pulled out a plum and claimed he was a good boy, Store Security caught the theft on a store security camera. They hauled that bad boy, a&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/little-jack-horner\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2882"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2882"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2882\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}