{"id":2263,"date":"2023-11-26T20:31:33","date_gmt":"2023-11-26T20:31:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=2263"},"modified":"2023-11-27T23:13:08","modified_gmt":"2023-11-27T23:13:08","slug":"contradictions-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/c-poems\/contradictions-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Contradictions."},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Contradictions.<br \/>\nby cricketjeff on January 13, 2008.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved<br \/>\nLets all sunbathe at dead of night<br \/>\nGet so relaxed we die of fright<br \/>\nWarm ourselves in the boiling snow<br \/>\nAnd stare in awe at the stars below.<\/p>\n<p>Gather round so we&#8217;re apart<br \/>\nFinish our game before we start<br \/>\nDrink the food we didn&#8217;t bring<br \/>\nThen all together we&#8217;ll silently sing<\/p>\n<p>A bustling party, with nobody there<br \/>\nSafe indoors in the open air<br \/>\nMusic so loud you can hear a pin drop<br \/>\nFaster and faster we almost stop<\/p>\n<p>Sitting down we jive and twist<br \/>\nEach one on his own is glad to assist<br \/>\nEating the wine that nobody poured<br \/>\nThe band didn&#8217;t play so we had to applaud<\/p>\n<p>If you think my party is strange you are wrong<br \/>\nIt finished so quick that it&#8217;s still going on<br \/>\nJust hurry along leave your coat at the door<br \/>\nThere is plenty of room, and there&#8217;s space for no more.<br \/>\n Author notes<br \/>\nI am not sure when I frst heard it, or something like it, I would guess at 40<br \/>\nyears ago and in London. We also had<br \/>\nI went to the cinema tomorrow<br \/>\nAnd bought a front seat at the back<br \/>\nI fell from the stalls to the gallery<br \/>\nAnd broke a front bone in my back<\/p>\n<p>I have heard many versions of your dead boys, too many to be able to recite a<br \/>\nconsistent one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Contradictions. by cricketjeff on January 13, 2008.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved Lets all sunbathe at dead of night Get so relaxed we die of fright Warm ourselves in the boiling snow And stare in awe at the stars below. Gather round so we&#8217;re apart Finish our game before we start Drink the food [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":9696,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2263","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2263","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=2263"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2263\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9245,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2263\/revisions\/9245"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}