{"id":2546,"date":"2023-11-26T20:28:16","date_gmt":"2023-11-26T20:28:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=2546"},"modified":"2023-11-28T23:09:52","modified_gmt":"2023-11-28T23:09:52","slug":"thoughts-at-night","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/t-poems\/thoughts-at-night\/","title":{"rendered":"Thoughts at night"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Thoughts at night<br \/>\nby cricketjeff on March 26, 2008.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved<br \/>\nAlone in the night as I sit on a cloud<br \/>\nAnd I look at the world fast asleep.<br \/>\nIf I had the voice I would sing out aloud<br \/>\nOf my feelings so mixed up and deep.<br \/>\nI should trill like the birds of the love that I feel<br \/>\nAnd I&#8217;d boom like a whale I was sad,<br \/>\nThe cacophonous sounds of a wild monkey&#8217;s squeal<br \/>\nWould be proof of the pain that I&#8217;ve had.<br \/>\nThe musical notes of the African night<br \/>\nWould tell that my life has been good<br \/>\nBut the final loud roar as I flew out of sight<br \/>\nWould awaken the whole neighbourhood.<br \/>\nFor the song that I sing would be all of my thoughts<br \/>\nAnd my thoughts are all jumbled as one.<br \/>\nI feel on my cloud that I&#8217;m quite out of sorts<br \/>\nAnd somehow I&#8217;ve missed all the fun.<\/p>\n<p> Author notes<br \/>\nA stream of consciousness while trying to write a free verse.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thoughts at night by cricketjeff on March 26, 2008.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved Alone in the night as I sit on a cloud And I look at the world fast asleep. If I had the voice I would sing out aloud Of my feelings so mixed up and deep. I should trill like [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":9748,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2546","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2546","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=2546"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2546\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8963,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2546\/revisions\/8963"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}