{"id":1348,"date":"2020-12-30T15:20:46","date_gmt":"2020-12-30T15:20:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/echoesofliverpool.com\/?page_id=1348"},"modified":"2021-01-02T14:06:53","modified_gmt":"2021-01-02T14:06:53","slug":"liverpool-humour","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/echoesofliverpool.com\/?page_id=1348","title":{"rendered":"Liverpool Humour"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>When the war was on there were loads of stray dogs, a pack of dogs roamed around near us.<\/strong> <strong>One day a dog ran into the house with a bone and went straight down to the outside lav. Mam<\/strong> <strong>got the broom but the dog wasn\u2019t having it. Anyhow in time he stayed with us in the back yard.<\/strong> <strong>We\u2019d be queuing for the lav because we were all scared to get past that dog. We called him Nelson, because he only had one eye. I waited till he blinked and made a run for it to the lav.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>On the dock road the lorries used to come by with sacks of peanuts. I got my little penknife to sneak up and slice one so the peanuts poured out and my jersey and legged it down the dock<\/strong> <strong>road. I was about 12 and I was pretty fast. As I ran I left a trail of peanuts behind me. The birds loved it.&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Because it was a port you saw more exotic animals \u2013 once a monkey escaped and got onto the house roof and started throwing tiles at all the passers by.&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>A docker near our street had a parrot that he kept outside his house in a cage, as you walked<\/strong> <strong>by the parrot you used to say \u2018hello Pretty Polly\u2019 and it would give you squawk a load of fruity language back.<\/strong>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"http:\/\/echoesofliverpool.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Parrot_in_cage-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1351\" srcset=\"http:\/\/echoesofliverpool.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Parrot_in_cage-1024x768.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/echoesofliverpool.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Parrot_in_cage-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/echoesofliverpool.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Parrot_in_cage-768x576.jpg 768w, http:\/\/echoesofliverpool.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Parrot_in_cage-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, http:\/\/echoesofliverpool.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Parrot_in_cage-400x300.jpg 400w, http:\/\/echoesofliverpool.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Parrot_in_cage.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:Parrot_in_cage.jpg<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-color has-blue-color\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/echoesofliverpool.com\/?page_id=1356\">First Job in Liverpool<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When the war was on there were loads of stray dogs, a pack of dogs roamed around near us. One day a dog ran into the house with a bone and went straight down to the outside lav. Mam got &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/echoesofliverpool.com\/?page_id=1348\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":1313,"menu_order":4,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/echoesofliverpool.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1348"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/echoesofliverpool.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/echoesofliverpool.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/echoesofliverpool.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/echoesofliverpool.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1348"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/echoesofliverpool.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1348\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1362,"href":"http:\/\/echoesofliverpool.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1348\/revisions\/1362"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/echoesofliverpool.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/echoesofliverpool.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}