{"id":1998,"date":"2023-11-26T20:31:55","date_gmt":"2023-11-26T20:31:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=1998"},"modified":"2023-11-28T23:04:46","modified_gmt":"2023-11-28T23:04:46","slug":"the-last-of-the-vs","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/the-poems\/the-last-of-the-vs\/","title":{"rendered":"The last of the Vs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> The last of the Vs<br \/>\nby cricketjeff on October 24, 2007.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved<br \/>\nA shape to fill the skies with dread<br \/>\nOur bomber forces would have lead<br \/>\nVictors and Valiants flying beside<br \/>\nAs Vulcan himself took the world for a ride<\/p>\n<p>A shadow of fear cast by wings thick and mighty<br \/>\nFlown by &#8220;our chaps&#8221; in their service of &#8220;Blighty&#8221;<br \/>\nDeterring our enemies boosting our friends<br \/>\nWhen a Vulcan is flying much menace attends<\/p>\n<p>The sound of its engines as it tears up the sky<br \/>\nA shape quite that graceful was just meant to fly<br \/>\nThat the reason we built it was so dismal and dark<br \/>\nCould not hide the designer&#8217;s most artistic spark<\/p>\n<p>Though built for a task that should never have been<br \/>\nI&#8217;m glad that this aircraft is one that I&#8217;ve seen<br \/>\nThe one that remains should be flown without cease<br \/>\nTo remind us to keep all our goals based on peace<br \/>\n Author notes<br \/>\nOption 2 Avro&#8217;s meanest and most graceful son<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The last of the Vs by cricketjeff on October 24, 2007.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved A shape to fill the skies with dread Our bomber forces would have lead Victors and Valiants flying beside As Vulcan himself took the world for a ride A shadow of fear cast by wings thick and mighty [&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-1998","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1998","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=1998"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1998\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9511,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1998\/revisions\/9511"}],"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=1998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}