{"id":4824,"date":"2011-08-04T23:42:21","date_gmt":"2011-08-04T23:42:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8000\/\/?p=4824"},"modified":"2011-08-04T23:42:21","modified_gmt":"2011-08-04T23:42:21","slug":"be-glad-your-nose-is-on-your-face","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peter.murmann.me\/?p=4824","title":{"rendered":"Be Glad Your Nose is on Your Face"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div class=\"content-image-wrapper\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/peter.murmann.me\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/nose-150x150.jpg\" class=\"content-image-block\" alt=\"image\" style=\"max-width: 100%; height: auto; display: block; margin: 15px auto;\" \/><\/div>\n<p> <i>Poem by Jack Prelutsky<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Be glad your nose is on your face,<\/p>\n<p>not pasted on some other place,<\/p>\n<p>for if it were where it is not,<\/p>\n<p>you might dislike your nose a lot.<\/p>\n<p>Imagine if your precious nose<\/p>\n<p>were sandwiched in between your toes,<\/p>\n<p>that clearly would not be a treat,<\/p>\n<p>for you&#8217;d be forced to smell your feet.<\/p>\n<p>Your nose would be a source of dread<\/p>\n<p>were it attached atop your head,<\/p>\n<p>it soon would drive you to despair,<\/p>\n<p>forever tickled by your hair.<\/p>\n<p>Within your ear, your nose would be<\/p>\n<p>an absolute catastrophe,<\/p>\n<p>for when you were obliged to sneeze,<\/p>\n<p>your brain would rattle from the breeze.<\/p>\n<p>Your nose, instead, through tick and thin,<\/p>\n<p>remains between your eyes and chin,<\/p>\n<p>not pasted on some other place&#8212;<\/p>\n<p>be glad your nose is on your face!<\/p>\n<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Glad-Your-Nose-Face-Prelutsky\/dp\/B002U0KPDA\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1312526918&amp;sr=8-1\">Be Glad Your Nose is on Your Face: And Other Poems<\/a> published by Harper Collins, 2008.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Poem by Jack Prelutsky Be glad your nose is on your face, not pasted on some other place, for if it were where it is <a href=\"https:\/\/peter.murmann.me\/?p=4824\" class=\"read-more-link\">[Read More]<\/a> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/localhost:8000\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/nose.jpg\" alt=\"image\" width=\"185\" height=\"220\" \/><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4824","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diary"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peter.murmann.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4824","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peter.murmann.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peter.murmann.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peter.murmann.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peter.murmann.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4824"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/peter.murmann.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4824\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peter.murmann.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peter.murmann.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peter.murmann.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}