{"id":2141,"date":"2023-11-26T20:31:35","date_gmt":"2023-11-26T20:31:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=2141"},"modified":"2023-11-28T22:50:49","modified_gmt":"2023-11-28T22:50:49","slug":"ode-to-a-fundamental-force","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/o-poems\/ode-to-a-fundamental-force\/","title":{"rendered":"Ode to a fundamental force"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Ode to a fundamental force<br \/>\nby cricketjeff on December 8, 2007.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved<br \/>\nMagnetism makes me smile,<br \/>\nA force so strong and versatile.<br \/>\nElectrons whizzing round at will<br \/>\nProduce a force that stays quite still.<br \/>\nHolding notes on each fridge door<br \/>\nBut capable of so much more.<br \/>\nMagnets whirring hour on hour<br \/>\nGenerate electric power.<br \/>\nMagnets keep the sailor straight<br \/>\nGuards him from a dreadful fate.<br \/>\nBut the hardest thing to understand<br \/>\nIs this plastic bug jumping on my hand!<\/p>\n<p> Author notes<br \/>\nThe plastic bug is a small &#8220;cracker&#8221; toy a red spider moulded round a magnet<br \/>\nthat leaps and spins as you play with another magnet below.<br \/>\nGood to see another science poet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ode to a fundamental force by cricketjeff on December 8, 2007.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved Magnetism makes me smile, A force so strong and versatile. Electrons whizzing round at will Produce a force that stays quite still. Holding notes on each fridge door But capable of so much more. Magnets whirring hour on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":9732,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2141","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2141","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=2141"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2141\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9367,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2141\/revisions\/9367"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}