CHRISTMAS FOR PLUMBERS<\/p>\n
Tall in the truck seat we spend Christmas Day
\nDriving to houses with slow-running drains
\nMany good gifts will be opened today
\nOurs is a flush and some wide-open drains<\/p>\n
Ordinary people are off work today
\nHugging their children and fixing souffles
\nI’ll hug the toilets, I’ll fix the mains
\nIt’s Christmas; I’m plumbing for wide-open drains<\/p>\n
The drive-thru has my Christmas dinner tonight
\nTruck’s instrument panel is my Christmas tree lights
\nJingle Bell Rock’s all my radio plays
\nIt’s Christmas; I’m on call for wide-open drains<\/p>\n
* * * * *<\/p>\n
Tall in the truck seat I’ve spent Christmas Day
\nDriving my cables through slow-running drains
\nSo many gifts have been given today
\nI gave my all for a wide-open drain
\nIt’s Christmas for plumbers and wide-open drains<\/p>\n
— Kevan C. Barley<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" CHRISTMAS FOR PLUMBERS Tall in the truck seat we spend Christmas Day Driving to houses with slow-running drains Many good gifts will be opened today Ours is a flush and some wide-open drains Ordinary people are off work today Hugging their children and fixing souffles I’ll hug the toilets, I’ll fix the mains It’s Christmas; … Continue reading “Christmas for Plumbers”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","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_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p45dxY-2o","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.barleyservices.biz\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.barleyservices.biz\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.barleyservices.biz\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.barleyservices.biz\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.barleyservices.biz\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=148"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.barleyservices.biz\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":253,"href":"http:\/\/www.barleyservices.biz\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148\/revisions\/253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.barleyservices.biz\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.barleyservices.biz\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.barleyservices.biz\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}