{"id":2127,"date":"2023-11-26T20:31:35","date_gmt":"2023-11-26T20:31:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=2127"},"modified":"2023-11-27T22:45:12","modified_gmt":"2023-11-27T22:45:12","slug":"better-for-it","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/b-poems\/better-for-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Better for it."},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Better for it.<br \/>\nby cricketjeff on December 4, 2007.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved<br \/>\nI never met a man of blue<br \/>\nBut almost every other hue<br \/>\nIs seen upon at least a few<br \/>\nAnd we are better for it<\/p>\n<p>Maybe not so many green<br \/>\nAmongst the folk that I have seen<br \/>\nIn darkness there just might have been<br \/>\nAnd we&#8217;d be better for it<\/p>\n<p>Underneath we all are red<br \/>\nUnless of course already dead!<br \/>\nWhen you&#8217;d be other shades instead<br \/>\nAnd not be better for it!<\/p>\n<p>Doesn&#8217;t matter much to me<br \/>\nWhat race or creed or size you be<br \/>\nAs long as you are making tea!<br \/>\nI&#8217;d feel much better for it!<\/p>\n<p>So from a bloke who&#8217;s dirty pink<br \/>\nPlease do not bother with the ink<br \/>\nJust read the words and start to THINK<br \/>\nAnd you&#8217;ll be better for it!<\/p>\n<p> Author notes<br \/>\nWell I like it!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Better for it. by cricketjeff on December 4, 2007.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved I never met a man of blue But almost every other hue Is seen upon at least a few And we are better for it Maybe not so many green Amongst the folk that I have seen In darkness there [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":9694,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2127","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2127","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=2127"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2127\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9381,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2127\/revisions\/9381"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}