{"id":1684,"date":"2026-04-12T13:57:54","date_gmt":"2026-04-12T13:57:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/annettesmyth.com\/?page_id=1684"},"modified":"2026-04-12T14:02:30","modified_gmt":"2026-04-12T14:02:30","slug":"just-me-and-the-boys","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/annettesmyth.com\/index.php\/just-me-and-the-boys\/","title":{"rendered":"Just Me and the Boys"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"pl-1684\"  class=\"panel-layout\" ><div id=\"pg-1684-0\"  class=\"panel-grid panel-no-style\" ><div id=\"pgc-1684-0-0\"  class=\"panel-grid-cell\" ><div id=\"panel-1684-0-0-0\" class=\"so-panel widget widget_media_image panel-first-child panel-last-child\" data-index=\"0\" ><div style=\"width: 1510px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/annettesmyth.com\/index.php\/new-work\/shop2\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1500\" height=\"1881\" src=\"https:\/\/annettesmyth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Shop2.jpg\" class=\"image wp-image-1618  attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"\" style=\"max-width: 100%; height: auto;\" srcset=\"https:\/\/annettesmyth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Shop2.jpg 1500w, https:\/\/annettesmyth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Shop2-239x300.jpg 239w, https:\/\/annettesmyth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Shop2-817x1024.jpg 817w, https:\/\/annettesmyth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Shop2-768x963.jpg 768w, https:\/\/annettesmyth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Shop2-1225x1536.jpg 1225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1500px) 100vw, 1500px\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Just Me and the Boys<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><div id=\"pgc-1684-0-1\"  class=\"panel-grid-cell\" ><div id=\"panel-1684-0-1-0\" class=\"widget_text so-panel widget widget_custom_html panel-first-child panel-last-child\" data-index=\"1\" ><div class=\"textwidget custom-html-widget\">rhyme or reason\u00a0<br>\nopen season\u00a0<br>\nall these coloured toys\u00a0<br>\nfor girls and boys\u00a0<br>\nwell let\u2019s be clear\u00a0<br>\nno girl stuff here\u00a0<br>\njust me and the boys\u00a0<br>\nand their thoughtless toys<br>\nyou don\u2019t believe in God\u00a0<br>\nthat\u2019s fine by me\u00a0<br>\nI have my doubts myself\u00a0<br>\noccasionally\u00a0<br>\nwell every day in fact\u00a0<br>\nno need for tact<br>\nI say it as I see it\u00a0<br>\ntake it or leave it<br>\nnever asked to stand in this shop window\u00a0<br>\nbut I\u2019ll do it in the fight against sin, though\u00a0<br>\nI know I look a bit ridiculous\u00a0<br>\nnot to say overly conspicuous<br>\n(if you\u2019ll forgive that heavy handed rhyme\u00a0<br>\na real sin in these unliterate times)<br>\ntoo dominant unbalancing the frame<br>\nand giving real religion a bad name\u00a0<br>\nbut what I see all day what speaks to me<br>\nwhat keeps me calm, composed, their symmetry\u00a0<br>\nthose pink sash windows looking back at me\u00a0<br>\ntheir functional originality\u00a0<br>\nthe universe as it is meant to be\u00a0<br><br><br><br>\nby Richard Ball<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just Me and the Boysrhyme or reason\u00a0 open season\u00a0 all these coloured toys\u00a0 for girls and boys\u00a0 well let\u2019s be clear\u00a0 no girl stuff here\u00a0 just me and the boys\u00a0 and their thoughtless toys you don\u2019t believe in God\u00a0 that\u2019s fine by me\u00a0 I have my doubts myself\u00a0 occasionally\u00a0 well every day in fact\u00a0 noContinue reading &rarr;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1684","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","no-thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/annettesmyth.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1684","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/annettesmyth.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/annettesmyth.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/annettesmyth.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/annettesmyth.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1684"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/annettesmyth.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1684\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1689,"href":"https:\/\/annettesmyth.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1684\/revisions\/1689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/annettesmyth.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}