{"id":2488,"date":"2023-11-26T20:31:30","date_gmt":"2023-11-26T20:31:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=2488"},"modified":"2023-11-28T22:00:01","modified_gmt":"2023-11-28T22:00:01","slug":"if-i-believed","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/i-poems\/if-i-believed\/","title":{"rendered":"If I believed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> If I believed<br \/>\nby cricketjeff on March 12, 2008.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved<br \/>\nIf I believed in gods then I would know<br \/>\nThat you were born an angel up above<br \/>\nIn regions dedicated just to love<br \/>\nBefore they let you lose on Earth below<\/p>\n<p>The way your shadow lies upon the ground<br \/>\nTo any unbeliever seems to show<br \/>\nIn divinity&#8217;s a truth profound<br \/>\nYou even have a shadow with a glow<\/p>\n<p>As from your lips their dripped the softest sound<br \/>\nAnd deep inside your eyes you smiled at me<br \/>\nIf I&#8217;d a god I would have made this plea<br \/>\nInside your liquid eyes I could be drowned<\/p>\n<p>But since I am a man alone and free<br \/>\nThen deep inside your heart I want to be<\/p>\n<p> Author notes<br \/>\nBefore I get into trouble, I am not alone or free nor have I met a lady with a<br \/>\nglowing shadow. But I like writing soppy sonnets, This is a Penfold sonnet<br \/>\nbasically iambic and abba caca cddc dd rhyming.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If I believed by cricketjeff on March 12, 2008.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved If I believed in gods then I would know That you were born an angel up above In regions dedicated just to love Before they let you lose on Earth below The way your shadow lies upon the ground To [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":9718,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2488","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2488","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=2488"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2488\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9020,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2488\/revisions\/9020"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}