{"id":2480,"date":"2023-11-26T20:31:30","date_gmt":"2023-11-26T20:31:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=2480"},"modified":"2023-11-27T22:42:57","modified_gmt":"2023-11-27T22:42:57","slug":"art-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/a-poems\/art-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Art"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Art<br \/>\nby cricketjeff on March 11, 2008.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved<br \/>\nIt wasn&#8217;t that he wanted to<br \/>\nHe&#8217;d sooner be elsewhere<br \/>\nThe awful things we have to do<br \/>\nThe crosses that we bear<\/p>\n<p>Alone inside that cemetery<br \/>\nA tear rolls down his cheek<br \/>\nHe thought a lot of poetry<br \/>\nHad not the strength to speak<\/p>\n<p>He could not stand beside the grave<br \/>\nNor see them fill it in<br \/>\nHe simply was not quite that brave<br \/>\nA fight he could not win<\/p>\n<p>The tiny body put away<br \/>\nWas not his little Art<br \/>\nFor Art is still alive at play<br \/>\nAnd buried in his heart<\/p>\n<p> Author notes<br \/>\nThere is no Art it is just a poem.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Art by cricketjeff on March 11, 2008.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved It wasn&#8217;t that he wanted to He&#8217;d sooner be elsewhere The awful things we have to do The crosses that we bear Alone inside that cemetery A tear rolls down his cheek He thought a lot of poetry Had not the strength [&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-2480","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2480","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=2480"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2480\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9027,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2480\/revisions\/9027"}],"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=2480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}