{"id":2302,"date":"2023-11-26T20:31:33","date_gmt":"2023-11-26T20:31:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=2302"},"modified":"2023-11-28T23:09:52","modified_gmt":"2023-11-28T23:09:52","slug":"to-win-the-race","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/t-poems\/to-win-the-race\/","title":{"rendered":"To win the race"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> To win the race<br \/>\nby cricketjeff on January 20, 2008.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved<br \/>\nThe dreams I found in shades I left behind<br \/>\nAre now returned to haunt each waking hour<br \/>\nYou cannot drown the devils in your mind<br \/>\nNo man alive has summoned up that pow&#8217;r<\/p>\n<p>Beneath the rocks I pass along the way<br \/>\nInside the trees that grow beside my path<br \/>\nDark spirits breed to drag away my day<br \/>\nTo write for me a dismal epitaph<\/p>\n<p>So I must set my face toward the sun<br \/>\nPreventing darkness ever gaining hold<br \/>\nNor be dissuaded from the race to run<br \/>\nBut borne along on paces still more bold<\/p>\n<p>No race is lost by those who come to choose<br \/>\nTo cast aside the only way to lose<\/p>\n<p> Author notes<br \/>\nstill practising<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To win the race by cricketjeff on January 20, 2008.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved The dreams I found in shades I left behind Are now returned to haunt each waking hour You cannot drown the devils in your mind No man alive has summoned up that pow&#8217;r Beneath the rocks I pass along [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":9748,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2302","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2302","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=2302"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2302\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9206,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2302\/revisions\/9206"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}