{"id":10769,"date":"2015-03-30T01:06:40","date_gmt":"2015-03-30T05:06:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bonanzabrand.info\/library\/?p=10769"},"modified":"2025-02-18T19:10:54","modified_gmt":"2025-02-19T00:10:54","slug":"caution-easter-bunny-crossing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bonanzabrand.info\/library\/?p=10769","title":{"rendered":"CAUTION:  EASTER BUNNY CROSSING (by Puchi Ann)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Summary: \u00a0A reprisal of the episode in verse<\/p>\n<p>Rating: K \u00a0(260 words)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>CAUTION:\u00a0 EASTER BUNNY CROSSING<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Papa dear, I swear it&#8217;s true:<\/p>\n<p>I saw a rabbit big as you!<\/p>\n<p>A-ridin&#8217; on a great big horse<\/p>\n<p>And totin&#8217; colored eggs, of course.<\/p>\n<p>What happened next I can&#8217;t explain.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s much too tough for this child&#8217;s brain.<\/p>\n<p>Some bandits, neither brave nor bold,<\/p>\n<p>Tried to steal a load of gold.<\/p>\n<p>Or, at least, that&#8217;s what they thought.<\/p>\n<p>They found out different, once they were caught.<\/p>\n<p>The rabbit stopped them, I swear it&#8217;s true,<\/p>\n<p>By tossing eggs:\u00a0 green, yellow, blue.<\/p>\n<p>With careful aim he lobbed them down<\/p>\n<p>Upon each bandit&#8217;s luckless crown,<\/p>\n<p>Then scurried off, as if in fear,<\/p>\n<p>When one of the men he&#8217;d helped came near.<\/p>\n<p>(The cutest thing I&#8217;ve ever seen<\/p>\n<p>With curls of brown and eyes of green.<\/p>\n<p>But, mercy, how I do digress!<\/p>\n<p>Still, drooling&#8217;s fun, I must confess.)<\/p>\n<p>Now the rabbit&#8217;s eggs were gone,<\/p>\n<p>The ones he had to hide &#8216;fore dawn.<\/p>\n<p>Poor rabbit, then he lost his horse,<\/p>\n<p>But that&#8217;s what changed his luck, of course.<\/p>\n<p>Inside the saddlebags he spied<\/p>\n<p>A better gift than eggs to hide.<\/p>\n<p>The Book of books he gave away,<\/p>\n<p>Then mounted up and rode away.<\/p>\n<p>Now, Papa, put that hairbrush down!<\/p>\n<p>And please wipe off that angry frown.<\/p>\n<p>I swear that every word is true.<\/p>\n<p>I wouldn&#8217;t tell a lie to you.<\/p>\n<p>I saw that rabbit, plain as day!<\/p>\n<p>And that is all I have to say.<\/p>\n<p>Although I know my rump may rue it,<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s my story, and I&#8217;m stickin&#8217; to it!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Tags:\u00a0 Hoss Cartwright,\u00a0Joe \/ Little Joe Cartwright<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summary: \u00a0A reprisal of the episode in verse<\/p>\n<p>Rating: K \u00a0(260 words)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":48,"featured_media":10770,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"template-full-width-post.php","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_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,"_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[4,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10769","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-humor","category-poetry","wpcat-4-id","wpcat-9-id"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/bonanzabrand.info\/library\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Hoss-bunny.jpg?fit=328%2C253&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bonanzabrand.info\/library\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10769","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bonanzabrand.info\/library\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bonanzabrand.info\/library\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bonanzabrand.info\/library\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/48"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bonanzabrand.info\/library\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10769"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bonanzabrand.info\/library\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10769\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bonanzabrand.info\/library\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10770"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bonanzabrand.info\/library\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bonanzabrand.info\/library\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bonanzabrand.info\/library\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}