{"id":4348,"date":"2026-08-23T10:24:13","date_gmt":"2026-08-23T10:24:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/?p=4348"},"modified":"2026-08-23T11:30:06","modified_gmt":"2026-08-23T11:30:06","slug":"sunday-verses-the-big-belly-boy-8-23-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/?p=4348","title":{"rendered":"SUNDAY VERSES: ‘The Big-Belly Boy’ (8\/23\/2026)"},"content":{"rendered":"

By RAHN ADAMS<\/strong><\/p>\n

Not wanting to look funny, \/ he sits on the middle shelf \/ with Pete the Pecan Pelican \/ and Old Baldy’s keeper Cap’n Sonny.<\/p>\n

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‘THE BIG-BELLY BOY’ (1981), clay pinch pot, by T. G. Adams<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

He’s the Big-Belly Boy, \/ given that epithet some 44 years ago \/ because he’d never met a cookie \/ he didn’t enjoy.<\/p>\n

Grandpa gave him the name \/ in reference to his girth, \/ and it has stuck like hot honey, \/ a madding moniker for 3-B’s shame.<\/p>\n

He just finished another circuit of the sun — \/ no, not Grandpa, \/ who rooms with Jesus now \/ (which, I’d say, ain’t a ton of fun);<\/p>\n

The ol’ Big-Belly Boy, who turned 67 \/ but gladly stays on his middle shelf, \/ a helluva long way \/ from anywhere like heaven.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By RAHN ADAMS Not wanting to look funny, \/ he sits on the middle shelf \/ with Pete the Pecan Pelican \/ and Old Baldy’s keeper Cap’n Sonny. He’s the Big-Belly Boy, \/ given that epithet some 44 years ago \/ because he’d never met a cookie \/ he didn’t enjoy. Grandpa gave him the … Continue reading SUNDAY VERSES: ‘The Big-Belly Boy’ (8\/23\/2026)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4348","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4348"}],"version-history":[{"count":49,"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4348\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4398,"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4348\/revisions\/4398"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}