{"id":2349,"date":"2023-11-26T20:31:32","date_gmt":"2023-11-26T20:31:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=2349"},"modified":"2023-11-28T22:47:39","modified_gmt":"2023-11-28T22:47:39","slug":"no-pipes-and-drums","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/n-poems\/no-pipes-and-drums\/","title":{"rendered":"No pipes and drums"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> No pipes and drums<br \/>\nby cricketjeff on January 31, 2008.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved<br \/>\nFar from the victories another girl waits<br \/>\nFor soldiers returning without any drums<br \/>\nCitizens gaze and they curse at the fates<br \/>\nThe girl that is waiting hopes that he comes<\/p>\n<p>War is now over, no victory gained<br \/>\nMen are returning just beaten and sore<br \/>\nNo barriers needed, all cheering restrained<br \/>\nHer man will never come home from this war.<\/p>\n<p>She stands on her tiptoes, day upon day<br \/>\nThe dress she is wearing now dirty and torn<br \/>\nSlowly so slowly all hope drains away<br \/>\nBut she can&#8217;t leave her vigil, a lady forlorn<\/p>\n<p>War&#8217;s don&#8217;t have victors, all lose in the end<br \/>\nRemember the cost to your enemy&#8217;s friend<br \/>\n Author notes<br \/>\nWhen I read a poem that I really like I like to try and comment in like form. I<br \/>\nread a poem When_the_pipes_come by Amera and wanted to do that, but her poem<br \/>\nwas upbeat and happy, mine is very sad so I did not want to put it on as a<br \/>\ncomment and spoil her page.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No pipes and drums by cricketjeff on January 31, 2008.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved Far from the victories another girl waits For soldiers returning without any drums Citizens gaze and they curse at the fates The girl that is waiting hopes that he comes War is now over, no victory gained Men are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":9730,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2349","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2349","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=2349"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2349\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9158,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2349\/revisions\/9158"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}