{"id":3775,"date":"2016-11-16T16:17:48","date_gmt":"2016-11-16T21:17:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/?p=3775"},"modified":"2017-03-25T13:29:05","modified_gmt":"2017-03-25T17:29:05","slug":"279a-childrens-rhyming-story-about-a-king-his-taxes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/279a-childrens-rhyming-story-about-a-king-his-taxes\/","title":{"rendered":"279A: Children&#8217;s rhyming story about a king &#038; his taxes (Solved)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I remember a story (read in the 1960s &#8211; 1970s), and I&#8217;m not sure if it was a stand-alone or a featured story in a collection. It was a funny rhyming story about a king who started taxing everything in his kingdom, until finally the people revolted. I only remember bits and pieces, but the lines I remember are:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A plague (?) on Max&#8217;s taxes! They are anything but fair. He taxes both our income and our patience, we declare!&#8221; and&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;So up they rose upon their toes&#8230;&#8221; and then something about going into the palace. The final line is something like &#8220;they stuck their tacks in Max!&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Any ideas\/suggestions?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I remember a story (read in the 1960s &#8211; 1970s), and I&#8217;m not sure if it was a stand-alone or a featured story in a collection. It was a funny rhyming story about a king who started taxing everything in his kingdom, until finally the people revolted. I only remember bits and pieces, but the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10,11,18],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3775"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3775"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3775\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4174,"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3775\/revisions\/4174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}