{"id":1966,"date":"2023-11-26T20:31:55","date_gmt":"2023-11-26T20:31:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=1966"},"modified":"2023-11-28T22:31:46","modified_gmt":"2023-11-28T22:31:46","slug":"a-mighty-dragon-roars","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/a-or-an-poems\/a-mighty-dragon-roars\/","title":{"rendered":"A mighty dragon roars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> A mighty dragon roars<br \/>\nby cricketjeff on October 6, 2007.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved<br \/>\nA sound that&#8217;s like no other<br \/>\nA monster man has made<br \/>\nA reminder life can&#8217;t smother<br \/>\nEmotions can&#8217;t be stayed<br \/>\nStarting with a gentle sigh<br \/>\nRising to a roar<br \/>\nA sight that can excite the eye<br \/>\nFills other senses more<br \/>\nThe scent brings back my childhood days<br \/>\nBut the sound&#8217;s the strongest link<br \/>\nA dragon changing all life&#8217;s ways<br \/>\nThat memory won&#8217;t shrink<br \/>\nFrom every joint its lifeblood hissing<br \/>\nIts limbs all strain and crash<br \/>\nA life complete no part is missing<br \/>\nA trail of smoke and of ash<br \/>\nThe sound fills up your senses<br \/>\nPowerful and loud<br \/>\nEvery metal sinew tenses<br \/>\nRelease must be allowed<br \/>\nThe scream of stone beneath cold steel<br \/>\nThe roar of steam released<br \/>\nThe Earth is crushed beneath each wheel<br \/>\nUntil the run is ceased<br \/>\nShouts and running, men at work<br \/>\nTo spread another load<br \/>\nNo-one but me to stand and shirk<br \/>\nThey&#8217;re steam-rollering a road!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A mighty dragon roars by cricketjeff on October 6, 2007.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved A sound that&#8217;s like no other A monster man has made A reminder life can&#8217;t smother Emotions can&#8217;t be stayed Starting with a gentle sigh Rising to a roar A sight that can excite the eye Fills other senses [&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-1966","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1966","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=1966"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1966\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9540,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1966\/revisions\/9540"}],"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=1966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}