{"id":2423,"date":"2023-11-26T20:31:31","date_gmt":"2023-11-26T20:31:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=2423"},"modified":"2023-11-27T22:42:57","modified_gmt":"2023-11-27T22:42:57","slug":"an-enigma","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/a-poems\/an-enigma\/","title":{"rendered":"An Enigma"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> An Enigma<br \/>\nby cricketjeff on February 24, 2008.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved<br \/>\nMore puzzles forming in the mind<br \/>\nAll wrapped in words that seem to flow<br \/>\nA real life that&#8217;s left behind<br \/>\nWhat do we know?<\/p>\n<p>New riddles asked in poetry<br \/>\nAnd placed on here for one and all<br \/>\nWith answers that are hard to see<br \/>\nOr to recall<\/p>\n<p>Questions asked of those I need<br \/>\nTesting for the weakest link<br \/>\nAll are placed at highest speed<br \/>\nIn dark green ink<\/p>\n<p>What is the force that drives me on<br \/>\nTo write in verse of what I feel<br \/>\nAre there still dreams to feed upon<br \/>\nOr is it real?<\/p>\n<p>Middle aged well passed my prime<br \/>\nI thought that life had passed me by<br \/>\nAnd then I showed the world my rhyme<br \/>\nNow I can fly!<br \/>\n Author notes<br \/>\nCricketjeff, an Enigma<br \/>\nThis didn&#8217;t come out as I wanted and may be replaced in the contest later.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An Enigma by cricketjeff on February 24, 2008.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved More puzzles forming in the mind All wrapped in words that seem to flow A real life that&#8217;s left behind What do we know? New riddles asked in poetry And placed on here for one and all With answers that are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":9692,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2423","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2423","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=2423"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2423\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9085,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2423\/revisions\/9085"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}