{"id":2413,"date":"2023-11-26T20:31:31","date_gmt":"2023-11-26T20:31:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=2413"},"modified":"2023-11-28T23:09:52","modified_gmt":"2023-11-28T23:09:52","slug":"think-before-you-speak","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/t-poems\/think-before-you-speak\/","title":{"rendered":"Think before you speak!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Think before you speak!<br \/>\nby cricketjeff on February 19, 2008.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved<br \/>\nA foolish man has said an evil thing<br \/>\nTo cut a precious lady to the quick<br \/>\nPicking such a twisted way to sing<br \/>\nWould surely make a real human sick<\/p>\n<p>Never had I thought a friend could say<br \/>\nWords designed to cause so deep a wound<br \/>\nThe worst of men would never act this way<br \/>\nBut here we have a good man badly tuned<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps an evil spirit drove his voice<br \/>\nWhen what was needed was an act of love<br \/>\nI cannot think he acted out of choice<br \/>\nWhat force could give insanity that shove<\/p>\n<p>I hope next time this man will use his brain<br \/>\nAnd I will never write this way again<\/p>\n<p> Author notes<br \/>\nI hope the man reads and understands.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Think before you speak! by cricketjeff on February 19, 2008.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved A foolish man has said an evil thing To cut a precious lady to the quick Picking such a twisted way to sing Would surely make a real human sick Never had I thought a friend could say Words [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":9748,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2413","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2413","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=2413"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2413\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9096,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2413\/revisions\/9096"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}