{"id":2405,"date":"2023-11-26T20:31:31","date_gmt":"2023-11-26T20:31:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=2405"},"modified":"2023-11-28T23:04:46","modified_gmt":"2023-11-28T23:04:46","slug":"the-first-lady-of-kent","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/the-poems\/the-first-lady-of-kent\/","title":{"rendered":"The first lady of Kent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> The first lady of Kent<br \/>\nby cricketjeff on February 16, 2008.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved<br \/>\nEight months ago Sue_Cardwell rhymed at me<br \/>\nShe made me smile and want to know her more<br \/>\nThe poems that she wrote could speak to me<br \/>\nThey rhymed so well but flow was sometimes poor<\/p>\n<p>I saw her talent could be made to soar<br \/>\nIf she just looked a little at her verse<br \/>\nMost people would have chosen to ignore<br \/>\nShe gobbled up my thoughts and did not curse<\/p>\n<p>Together every line we can rehearse<br \/>\nMy poetry is better for her aid<br \/>\nNo suggested form is too perverse<br \/>\nA lion of a puss I think is made<\/p>\n<p>And now amongst her friends a King and Queen<br \/>\nThe finest poet Kent has ever seen!<br \/>\n Author notes<br \/>\nSpensarian Sonnet ie a b a b b c b c c d c d e e rhyme scheme With thanks to<br \/>\nAmera for showing me that it can work well. I hope you like this Sue, it needs<br \/>\npolish but I thought you may want to see it as it settles down.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first lady of Kent by cricketjeff on February 16, 2008.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved Eight months ago Sue_Cardwell rhymed at me She made me smile and want to know her more The poems that she wrote could speak to me They rhymed so well but flow was sometimes poor I saw her [&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-2405","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2405","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=2405"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2405\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9104,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2405\/revisions\/9104"}],"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=2405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}