{"id":2335,"date":"2023-11-26T20:31:32","date_gmt":"2023-11-26T20:31:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=2335"},"modified":"2023-11-28T23:06:35","modified_gmt":"2023-11-28T23:06:35","slug":"the-poet-laureate-of-kent","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/the-poems\/the-poet-laureate-of-kent\/","title":{"rendered":"The poet laureate of Kent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> The poet laureate of Kent<br \/>\nby cricketjeff on January 27, 2008.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved<br \/>\nThe poet laureate of Kent<br \/>\nIs penning lines to steal my heart<br \/>\nThat which before was only lent<br \/>\nIs now her part<\/p>\n<p>The mistress of the tragic tale<br \/>\nWho tears the tears from every eye<br \/>\nHer poetry will never fail<br \/>\nTo make me sigh<\/p>\n<p>And now she&#8217;s writing sonnets too<br \/>\nA sapphic ode as well by chance<br \/>\nWhat else is left for her to do?<br \/>\nIn this life&#8217;s dance<\/p>\n<p>From writer of the odd short piece<br \/>\nTo poetess to match the best<br \/>\nI hope that she will never cease<br \/>\nTo beat the rest!<\/p>\n<p>I hope you like my little rhyme<br \/>\nGood wishes that it sends to<br \/>\nYou know that &#8217;til the end of time<br \/>\nWe love you Sue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The poet laureate of Kent by cricketjeff on January 27, 2008.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved The poet laureate of Kent Is penning lines to steal my heart That which before was only lent Is now her part The mistress of the tragic tale Who tears the tears from every eye Her poetry will [&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-2335","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2335","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=2335"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2335\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9173,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2335\/revisions\/9173"}],"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=2335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}