{"id":1980,"date":"2023-11-26T20:31:55","date_gmt":"2023-11-26T20:31:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=1980"},"modified":"2023-11-28T22:45:35","modified_gmt":"2023-11-28T22:45:35","slug":"mum","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/m-poems\/mum\/","title":{"rendered":"Mum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Mum<br \/>\nby cricketjeff on October 12, 2007.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved<br \/>\nYou&#8217;ve been about for eighty years<br \/>\nLaughed a lot and shed some tears<br \/>\nYou&#8217;ve been a child, a nurse, a wife<br \/>\nMother, Grandma, what a life!<br \/>\nYou&#8217;ve lived through peace, and through a war.<br \/>\nA lot to fill your years, four score.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve not yet known you fifty years<br \/>\nI too have laughed and cried some tears<br \/>\nYou&#8217;ve made me dinners, quite a few<br \/>\nI&#8217;ve rarely given thanks to you.<br \/>\nMy brothers and sister loved as well<br \/>\nAnd other things I shall not tell!<\/p>\n<p>You helped us grow to what we are<br \/>\nWe&#8217;ve done OK, not travelled far<br \/>\nNow we have children of our own<br \/>\nAnd some of those are fully grown<br \/>\nTime keeps passing. Years go by<br \/>\nThey haven&#8217;t thought to tell us why.<\/p>\n<p>You taught me how to bake a cake,<br \/>\nYou picked me up from each mistake,<br \/>\nYou accepted all my worst ideas,<br \/>\nYou help me fight my craven fears.<br \/>\nYou may have faults, but only some<br \/>\nOverall<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 I love you Mum!<\/p>\n<p> Author notes<br \/>\nA work in progress<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mum by cricketjeff on October 12, 2007.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved You&#8217;ve been about for eighty years Laughed a lot and shed some tears You&#8217;ve been a child, a nurse, a wife Mother, Grandma, what a life! You&#8217;ve lived through peace, and through a war. A lot to fill your years, four score. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":9728,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1980","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1980","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=1980"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1980\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9528,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1980\/revisions\/9528"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}