{"id":1942,"date":"2023-11-26T20:31:55","date_gmt":"2023-11-26T20:31:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=1942"},"modified":"2023-11-28T22:00:00","modified_gmt":"2023-11-28T22:00:00","slug":"i-cannot-tell-a-lie","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/i-poems\/i-cannot-tell-a-lie\/","title":{"rendered":"I cannot tell a lie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> I cannot tell a lie<br \/>\nby cricketjeff on September 27, 2007.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved<br \/>\nThe greatest lie that&#8217;s ever heard<br \/>\nA mangling of the spoken word<br \/>\nYet many people seem to try<br \/>\nTo make believe they cannot lie<\/p>\n<p>However truthful we may be<br \/>\nThere comes a time when such as we<br \/>\nWell maybe lie is out of place<br \/>\nWill bend the truth to match the case<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Honey does this make me fat?&#8221;<br \/>\nHow does the truthful answer that?<br \/>\nA better way you can&#8217;t deny<br \/>\nIs find a friendly little lie<\/p>\n<p>So I will take your words to be<br \/>\nYou are not lying here to me<br \/>\nBut if you were you&#8217;d never say<br \/>\nLife&#8217;s a tricky game to play!<br \/>\n Author notes<br \/>\nA friend started a sentence with &#8220;I cannot tell a lie&#8230;&#8221;<br \/>\nas many friends often do. I wonder how the little things in life work out<br \/>\nsometimes&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I cannot tell a lie by cricketjeff on September 27, 2007.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved The greatest lie that&#8217;s ever heard A mangling of the spoken word Yet many people seem to try To make believe they cannot lie However truthful we may be There comes a time when such as we Well [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":9718,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1942","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1942","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=1942"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1942\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9564,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1942\/revisions\/9564"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}