{"id":2189,"date":"2023-11-26T20:31:34","date_gmt":"2023-11-26T20:31:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=2189"},"modified":"2023-11-28T22:00:01","modified_gmt":"2023-11-28T22:00:01","slug":"in-the-pond","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/i-poems\/in-the-pond\/","title":{"rendered":"In the pond"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> In the pond<br \/>\nby cricketjeff on December 22, 2007.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved<br \/>\nBeneath the waters of the pond<br \/>\nThere lies a place of which I&#8217;m fond<br \/>\nWhere little elfin people live<br \/>\nAnd weave the magic that they give<\/p>\n<p>They cause the flowers to bloom in spring<br \/>\nThey give each bird each lovely wing<br \/>\nThe leaves they paste on every tree<br \/>\nAnd every night they talk to me<\/p>\n<p>Inside my head these elfin folk<br \/>\nLike to dance and sing and joke<br \/>\nAnd what I notice all the time<br \/>\nIs everything&#8217;s in perfect rhyme!<\/p>\n<p>The doctor says they are not real<br \/>\nThese elfin folk I see and feel<br \/>\nBut he has never been beyond<br \/>\nThe mirrored surface of my pond<br \/>\n Author notes<br \/>\nperhaps I should be locked up<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the pond by cricketjeff on December 22, 2007.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved Beneath the waters of the pond There lies a place of which I&#8217;m fond Where little elfin people live And weave the magic that they give They cause the flowers to bloom in spring They give each bird each lovely [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":9718,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2189","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2189","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=2189"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2189\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9319,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2189\/revisions\/9319"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}