{"id":2360,"date":"2023-11-26T20:31:32","date_gmt":"2023-11-26T20:31:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=2360"},"modified":"2023-11-28T22:47:40","modified_gmt":"2023-11-28T22:47:40","slug":"not-yet","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/n-poems\/not-yet\/","title":{"rendered":"Not yet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Not yet<br \/>\nby cricketjeff on February 2, 2008.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved<br \/>\nThe perfect poem has not yet been penned<br \/>\nI hope I\u00a0 do not live to see it done<br \/>\nFor when perfection comes there is an end<br \/>\nTo ev&#8217;ry lesser mortals chance of fun<\/p>\n<p>Maybe the form it takes has now been drawn<br \/>\nImmortal bard it was who showed the way<br \/>\nWith sonnets written as his heart was torn<br \/>\nTo write like that you must have gone astray<\/p>\n<p>For centuries the poets of the age<br \/>\nHave tried in vain to find a better form<br \/>\nAll manner of man&#8217;s vision on a page<br \/>\nToo much was lost in failing to conform<\/p>\n<p>Now I see that there are those who strive<br \/>\nTo keep the dream of perfect rhyme alive<br \/>\n Author notes<br \/>\nThis sucks and will therefore be replaced when\/if the muses strike. Trouble is<br \/>\nI&#8217;m not really big on perfection.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not yet by cricketjeff on February 2, 2008.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved The perfect poem has not yet been penned I hope I\u00a0 do not live to see it done For when perfection comes there is an end To ev&#8217;ry lesser mortals chance of fun Maybe the form it takes has now been [&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-2360","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2360","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=2360"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2360\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9148,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2360\/revisions\/9148"}],"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=2360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}