{"id":1875,"date":"2023-11-26T20:31:56","date_gmt":"2023-11-26T20:31:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=1875"},"modified":"2023-11-28T23:09:04","modified_gmt":"2023-11-28T23:09:04","slug":"the-world-below-the-city","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/the-poems\/the-world-below-the-city\/","title":{"rendered":"The world below the city"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> The world below the city<br \/>\nby cricketjeff on September 9, 2007.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved<br \/>\nFew men can know the beauty of the sewers down below<br \/>\nWhere the filth that people leave behind is left to ebb and flow<br \/>\nStalactites of congealed fat glisten in an eerie light<br \/>\nAs below them on the foaming deeps, float rafts of human shite<br \/>\nThe rats that swim and dart about have coats that shine with health<br \/>\nFor these cleaners-up of human filth there&#8217;s a river load of wealth<br \/>\nToilet paper streamers decorate the vaulted halls<br \/>\nAnd coloured plastic bags of trash, bob along in shiny balls<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s true that the aroma that pervades this world of gloom<br \/>\nIsn&#8217;t quite the scent of flowers that you&#8217;d choose for your bedroom<br \/>\nBut if your eye is tuned just right, and you look around with care<br \/>\nFor a certain sort of poet there is beauty everywhere<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The world below the city by cricketjeff on September 9, 2007.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved Few men can know the beauty of the sewers down below Where the filth that people leave behind is left to ebb and flow Stalactites of congealed fat glisten in an eerie light As below them on the [&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-1875","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1875","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=1875"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1875\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9633,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1875\/revisions\/9633"}],"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=1875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}