{"id":2367,"date":"2023-11-26T20:31:32","date_gmt":"2023-11-26T20:31:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=2367"},"modified":"2023-11-28T23:04:47","modified_gmt":"2023-11-28T23:04:47","slug":"the-middle-aged-poet","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/the-poems\/the-middle-aged-poet\/","title":{"rendered":"The middle-aged poet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> The middle-aged poet<br \/>\nby cricketjeff on February 3, 2008.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved<br \/>\nIt seemed to me that love had passed me by<br \/>\nThat I would never feel that thrill again<br \/>\nMy spirit wouldn&#8217;t have a cause to fly<br \/>\nOr plunge me down in agonies of pain<\/p>\n<p>I think I had accepted this would be<br \/>\nSlipping quietly through my middle age<br \/>\nI should never let my fancies wander free<br \/>\nAnd never throw my passions on a page<\/p>\n<p>And then I found that others loved my verse<br \/>\nThey thought that I had something left to give<br \/>\nMy future now did not look so much worse<br \/>\nI&#8217;d found I had a reason still to live<\/p>\n<p>A special lady showed me how to see<br \/>\nSo now my verse is written on AP<\/p>\n<p> Author notes<br \/>\nNo this is not really me!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The middle-aged poet by cricketjeff on February 3, 2008.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved It seemed to me that love had passed me by That I would never feel that thrill again My spirit wouldn&#8217;t have a cause to fly Or plunge me down in agonies of pain I think I had accepted this [&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-2367","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2367","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=2367"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2367\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9141,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2367\/revisions\/9141"}],"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=2367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}