{"id":1956,"date":"2023-11-26T20:31:55","date_gmt":"2023-11-26T20:31:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=1956"},"modified":"2023-11-28T22:00:02","modified_gmt":"2023-11-28T22:00:02","slug":"its-not-easy-being-perfect","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/i-poems\/its-not-easy-being-perfect\/","title":{"rendered":"It\u2019s not easy being perfect"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> It\u2019s not easy being perfect<br \/>\nby cricketjeff on October 2, 2007.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved<br \/>\nI do myself no favours<br \/>\nThe way I hide my light<br \/>\nWhen you are as great as I am<br \/>\nDiffidence ain\u2019t right<br \/>\nI cannot understand it<br \/>\nHow a girl resists my charms<br \/>\nI\u2019m such a perfect person<br \/>\nThey should be rushing to my arms<br \/>\nThere is a girl I love a lot<br \/>\nI should do, she\u2019s my wife<br \/>\nBut I could also be surrounded<br \/>\nBy the finer things in life<br \/>\nPerhaps I should do something<br \/>\nTo try to catch the eye<br \/>\nBut I\u2019m not sure I\u2019m up to it<br \/>\nI\u2019m so modest and so shy!<br \/>\n Author notes<br \/>\nOne or two people have alleged that by walking around town in the liveliest<br \/>\nwaistcoats seen outside a circus and with a scrolling badge proclaiming my<br \/>\nadvice to the world that I cannot claim to be shy, what do they know!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s not easy being perfect by cricketjeff on October 2, 2007.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved I do myself no favours The way I hide my light When you are as great as I am Diffidence ain\u2019t right I cannot understand it How a girl resists my charms I\u2019m such a perfect person They [&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-1956","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1956","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=1956"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1956\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9552,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1956\/revisions\/9552"}],"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=1956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}