{"id":2507,"date":"2023-11-26T20:31:30","date_gmt":"2023-11-26T20:31:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=2507"},"modified":"2023-11-28T22:45:35","modified_gmt":"2023-11-28T22:45:35","slug":"my-lunchtime-stroll","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/m-poems\/my-lunchtime-stroll\/","title":{"rendered":"My lunchtime stroll"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> My lunchtime stroll<br \/>\nby cricketjeff on March 19, 2008.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved<br \/>\n\u00a0 [Posts%20by%20cricketjeff%204_files\/769.xml]<\/p>\n<p>A thousand years of history<br \/>\nA stroll just after lunch<br \/>\nThe heart of London&#8217;s mystery<br \/>\nAnd tourists by the bunch<\/p>\n<p>[Posts%20by%20cricketjeff%204_files\/771_002.xml]<\/p>\n<p>The River wanders lazily<br \/>\nBeneath a crowd of boats<br \/>\nThe Bridges showing hazily<br \/>\nAbove the stuff that floats<\/p>\n<p>[Posts%20by%20cricketjeff%204_files\/775.xml]<\/p>\n<p>The guns that shelled the Bismark<br \/>\nFace the walls of ancient days<br \/>\nA man that now makes his mark<br \/>\nStares across from modern maze<\/p>\n<p>[Posts%20by%20cricketjeff%204_files\/777.xml]<\/p>\n<p>The job may not reward me<br \/>\nAnd I may not be content<br \/>\nBut these sites have never bored me<br \/>\nAnd their power won&#8217;t relent<\/p>\n<p>[Posts%20by%20cricketjeff%204_files\/779.xml]<\/p>\n<p>So I walk across the river<br \/>\nTo see where my Land was made<br \/>\nAnd I always feel a shiver<br \/>\nAs my history&#8217;s replayed<\/p>\n<p>[Posts%20by%20cricketjeff%204_files\/781.xml]<\/p>\n<p>The best of all the ages<br \/>\nStood to look upon those gates<br \/>\nOne of England&#8217;s greatest stages<br \/>\nNow majestically waits<\/p>\n<p>[Posts%20by%20cricketjeff%204_files\/783.xml]<\/p>\n<p>An iron marvel clad in stone<br \/>\nIs just as grand to see<br \/>\nAnd dreaming of a sort of throne<br \/>\nIs a poet known as me<\/p>\n<p>[Posts%20by%20cricketjeff%204_files\/785.xml]<\/p>\n<p>[Posts%20by%20cricketjeff%204_files\/787.xml]<\/p>\n<p>[Posts%20by%20cricketjeff%204_files\/841.xml]<br \/>\n[Posts%20by%20cricketjeff%204_files\/855.xml]<br \/>\n[Posts%20by%20cricketjeff%204_files\/857.xml]<br \/>\n[Posts%20by%20cricketjeff%204_files\/859.xml]<br \/>\n[Posts%20by%20cricketjeff%204_files\/861.xml]<br \/>\n[Posts%20by%20cricketjeff%204_files\/863.xml]<br \/>\n[Posts%20by%20cricketjeff%204_files\/865.xml]<br \/>\n[Posts%20by%20cricketjeff%204_files\/867.xml]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My lunchtime stroll by cricketjeff on March 19, 2008.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved \u00a0 [Posts%20by%20cricketjeff%204_files\/769.xml] A thousand years of history A stroll just after lunch The heart of London&#8217;s mystery And tourists by the bunch [Posts%20by%20cricketjeff%204_files\/771_002.xml] The River wanders lazily Beneath a crowd of boats The Bridges showing hazily Above the stuff that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":9728,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2507","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2507","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=2507"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2507\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9001,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2507\/revisions\/9001"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}