{"id":2266,"date":"2023-11-26T20:31:33","date_gmt":"2023-11-26T20:31:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=2266"},"modified":"2023-11-28T23:09:03","modified_gmt":"2023-11-28T23:09:03","slug":"the-siren-song","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/the-poems\/the-siren-song\/","title":{"rendered":"The siren song"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> The siren song<br \/>\nby cricketjeff on January 13, 2008.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved<br \/>\nShe captured my heart with her song from the sea<br \/>\nSat on a rock as she sang just for me<br \/>\nI knew that my soul could not ever break free<br \/>\nI&#8217;ve fallen in love with a mermaid<\/p>\n<p>She sat up so proud and she played with her hair<br \/>\nCoyly ensuring that I was aware<br \/>\nOn the whole crowded beach there was only me there<br \/>\nWhen I fell in love with a mermaid<\/p>\n<p>When you love a mermaid you&#8217;re both happy and sad<br \/>\nYour life will be good and your life will be bad<br \/>\nSometime you will cry and at others be glad<br \/>\nIt is hard when your love is a mermaid<\/p>\n<p>When she&#8217;s walking on land she is all you could wish<br \/>\nWith a presence and beauty that&#8217;s almost impish<br \/>\nBut when she hears the sea she just wants to be fish<br \/>\nAnd that is the way with a mermaid<\/p>\n<p>Mermaids are not mortal so they never age<br \/>\nAnd loving a man is for them just a stage<br \/>\nOne day they will simply turn over the page<br \/>\nAnd that is the end of your mermaid<\/p>\n<p>I sit on the beach and I gaze at the rock<br \/>\nWhere my life began and then ended in shock<br \/>\nShe still has my heart and its closed with a lock<br \/>\nWhere in the world is my mermaid<br \/>\n Author notes<br \/>\nI seem to be stuck in a mermaid phase<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The siren song by cricketjeff on January 13, 2008.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved She captured my heart with her song from the sea Sat on a rock as she sang just for me I knew that my soul could not ever break free I&#8217;ve fallen in love with a mermaid She sat up [&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-2266","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2266","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=2266"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2266\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9241,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2266\/revisions\/9241"}],"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=2266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}