{"id":1872,"date":"2023-11-26T20:31:56","date_gmt":"2023-11-26T20:31:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=1872"},"modified":"2023-11-28T22:31:45","modified_gmt":"2023-11-28T22:31:45","slug":"a-cure-for-romance","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/a-or-an-poems\/a-cure-for-romance\/","title":{"rendered":"A cure for romance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> A cure for romance<br \/>\nby cricketjeff on September 8, 2007.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved<br \/>\nThere are not any stars tonight<br \/>\nNothing in the sky is shiny bright<br \/>\nAll above is gloomy black<br \/>\nI wish they&#8217;d put the starlight back<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s isn&#8217;t any moon today<br \/>\nHer silvery light is far away<br \/>\nNo lovers ever stop and sigh<br \/>\nBeneath a dark and cloudy sky<\/p>\n<p>Astronomers are stuck indoors<br \/>\nPutting their instruments back in their drawers<br \/>\nNo telescopes to help them see<br \/>\nWonders hidden from you and me<\/p>\n<p>No meteors (they&#8217;re shooting stars)<br \/>\nOr rare and distant supernovas<br \/>\nNo asteroids to name for Aunts<br \/>\nNo searching for signs of Martian plants<\/p>\n<p>So I&#8217;m not going out to look in awe<br \/>\nAt the sights the universe has in store<br \/>\nI&#8217;m just staying here and sitting tight<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s a grey and dreary London night<br \/>\n Author notes<br \/>\nYes I know they are supernovae but they aren&#8217;t shooting stae so it wouldn&#8217;t<br \/>\nwork!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A cure for romance by cricketjeff on September 8, 2007.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved There are not any stars tonight Nothing in the sky is shiny bright All above is gloomy black I wish they&#8217;d put the starlight back There&#8217;s isn&#8217;t any moon today Her silvery light is far away No lovers ever [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":9744,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1872","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1872","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=1872"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1872\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9636,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1872\/revisions\/9636"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}