{"id":2261,"date":"2023-11-26T20:31:33","date_gmt":"2023-11-26T20:31:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=2261"},"modified":"2023-11-28T23:04:47","modified_gmt":"2023-11-28T23:04:47","slug":"the-pendant","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/the-poems\/the-pendant\/","title":{"rendered":"The pendant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> The pendant<br \/>\nby cricketjeff on January 13, 2008.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved<br \/>\nIntricate tracings defining the stone<br \/>\nFences of beauty keep each to its own<br \/>\nSpirals and patterns in silver and gold<br \/>\nFossilised life is kept safe in the fold<\/p>\n<p>Motion implied by the windings of wire<br \/>\nColours of metal that dance like a fire<br \/>\nStone in the centre with lustre and shine<br \/>\nHeld by a wrapping of smithing so fine<\/p>\n<p>Beaten and twisted to shapes that reflect<br \/>\nTreating the form of the stone with respect<br \/>\nA jewel man made that enhances the sight<br \/>\nBeautiful fossil that shines in the light<\/p>\n<p>You have created a fine piece of art<br \/>\nIs it now worn by one close to your heart?<\/p>\n<p> Author notes<br \/>\nI was about to write it isn&#8217;t in any particular form, but it appears to be more<br \/>\nor less a non-iambic sonnet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The pendant by cricketjeff on January 13, 2008.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved Intricate tracings defining the stone Fences of beauty keep each to its own Spirals and patterns in silver and gold Fossilised life is kept safe in the fold Motion implied by the windings of wire Colours of metal that dance like [&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-2261","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2261","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=2261"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2261\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9248,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2261\/revisions\/9248"}],"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=2261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}