{"id":2417,"date":"2023-11-26T20:31:31","date_gmt":"2023-11-26T20:31:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=2417"},"modified":"2023-11-28T23:04:45","modified_gmt":"2023-11-28T23:04:45","slug":"the-death-of-a-dragon","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/the-poems\/the-death-of-a-dragon\/","title":{"rendered":"The death of a dragon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> The death of a dragon<br \/>\nby cricketjeff on February 22, 2008.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved<br \/>\nWell before they sank the ancient well<br \/>\nKnights defended here on many nights<br \/>\nFell behind the bank on Goathead Fell<br \/>\nSights of horror seer the battles sites<\/p>\n<p>Dark stories writers tell well after dark<br \/>\nSleep starved they fought to fend off endless sleep<br \/>\nMark the way the fighters left their mark<br \/>\nDeep evils then were taught a lesson deep<\/p>\n<p>Not daunted are the great who formed the knot<br \/>\nFast they stood and flashed theirs blades so fast<br \/>\nShot down beneath the weight of arrows shot<br \/>\nLast blows were crashed on worm that cannot last<\/p>\n<p>Great logs the servants piling on the grate<br \/>\nFate is now surely smiling on this fete<br \/>\n Author notes<br \/>\nGoathead fell is a hill, the Well is a deep cave that local legend says was a<br \/>\nwell dug too deep so that a dragon (worm) was allowed to escape. There are<br \/>\nancient earthworks where the legends say local knights and villagers vanquished<br \/>\ntheir foe.<\/p>\n<p>The form is (I hope) a Shadow Sonnet, created by Amera.<\/p>\n<p>100 points to the first to spot the added twist.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The death of a dragon by cricketjeff on February 22, 2008.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved Well before they sank the ancient well Knights defended here on many nights Fell behind the bank on Goathead Fell Sights of horror seer the battles sites Dark stories writers tell well after dark Sleep starved they fought [&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-2417","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2417","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=2417"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2417\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9091,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2417\/revisions\/9091"}],"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=2417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}