{"id":1850,"date":"2023-11-26T20:31:57","date_gmt":"2023-11-26T20:31:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=1850"},"modified":"2023-11-28T23:04:45","modified_gmt":"2023-11-28T23:04:45","slug":"the-cheerful-pessimist","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/the-poems\/the-cheerful-pessimist\/","title":{"rendered":"The cheerful pessimist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> The cheerful pessimist<br \/>\nby cricketjeff on August 27, 2007.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved<br \/>\nI am the cheerful pessimist<br \/>\nThere\u2019s no way we can survive<br \/>\nAnd every year I\u2019m shocked to find<br \/>\nThat I am still alive<\/p>\n<p>I am the cheerful pessimist<br \/>\nThe future\u2019s very bleak<br \/>\nBut then Saturday comes round again<br \/>\nI\u2019ve lived another week<\/p>\n<p>I am the cheerful pessimist<br \/>\nThe world has gone to pot<br \/>\nI knew that I\u2019d go broke last year<br \/>\n\u201cCor blimey!\u201d I did not!<\/p>\n<p>I am the cheerful pessimist<br \/>\nIt\u2019s raining for an hour<br \/>\nIt turns out its not Noah\u2019s flood<br \/>\nJust a passing English shower<\/p>\n<p>I am the cheerful pessimist<br \/>\nWith Tony still in power<br \/>\nIts amazing to discover<br \/>\nThere\u2019s no new wars this hour<\/p>\n<p>I am the cheerful pessimist<br \/>\nThe way the world is warming<br \/>\nI\u2019m shocked to see a grasshopper<br \/>\nNot a plague of locusts swarming<\/p>\n<p>I am the cheerful pessimist<br \/>\nNo-one will know my name<br \/>\nBut every Monday morning<br \/>\nThey all greet me just the same<\/p>\n<p>I am the cheerful pessimist<br \/>\nIt\u2019s an ugly world I fear<br \/>\nThen a lady walks along the road<br \/>\nWith legs right up to here<\/p>\n<p>I am the cheerful pessimist<br \/>\nNothing is ever pleasant<br \/>\nThen the postman\u2019s at the door<br \/>\nWith a lovely birthday present<\/p>\n<p>I am the cheerful pessimist<br \/>\nNo-one ever reads my rhymes<br \/>\nWho knows that may be the editor<br \/>\n\u201cCan we quote you in the Times?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I am the cheerful pessimist<br \/>\nIt\u2019s not how you were taught<br \/>\nPessimists can always smile<br \/>\nLife\u2019s so much better than we thought<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The cheerful pessimist by cricketjeff on August 27, 2007.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved I am the cheerful pessimist There\u2019s no way we can survive And every year I\u2019m shocked to find That I am still alive I am the cheerful pessimist The future\u2019s very bleak But then Saturday comes round again I\u2019ve lived [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":9742,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1850","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1850","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1850"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1850\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9658,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1850\/revisions\/9658"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}