{"id":1994,"date":"2023-11-26T20:31:55","date_gmt":"2023-11-26T20:31:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=1994"},"modified":"2023-11-28T23:09:04","modified_gmt":"2023-11-28T23:09:04","slug":"the-trap-of-life","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/the-poems\/the-trap-of-life\/","title":{"rendered":"The trap of life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> The trap of life<br \/>\nby cricketjeff on October 20, 2007.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved<br \/>\nWith silken ropes you hold me in<br \/>\nThe game of life you hope to win<br \/>\nTight within your web I&#8217;m bound<br \/>\nFurther traps are all around<br \/>\nEvery time I reach for you<br \/>\nYou hold me more with yet more glue<br \/>\nYou&#8217;ll use me hard and drink your fill<br \/>\nMy body you force to serve your will<br \/>\nWhen you have used me all you wish<br \/>\nYou&#8217;ll throw me back with other fish<\/p>\n<p>A web you&#8217;ll weave for another man<br \/>\nAnd drink from him all that you can<br \/>\nNo man for you can be enough<br \/>\nAs you try to garner all life&#8217;s stuff<br \/>\nOne at a time all men you chase<br \/>\nAnd trap them in your secret place<br \/>\nBut each man leaves while smiling bright<br \/>\nAfter you&#8217;ve loved him through the night<br \/>\nWhen you win the game your men don&#8217;t lose<br \/>\nGetting stuck in your trap is the way that we choose<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The trap of life by cricketjeff on October 20, 2007.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved With silken ropes you hold me in The game of life you hope to win Tight within your web I&#8217;m bound Further traps are all around Every time I reach for you You hold me more with yet more [&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-1994","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1994","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=1994"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1994\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9515,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1994\/revisions\/9515"}],"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=1994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}