{"id":2601,"date":"2023-11-26T20:28:15","date_gmt":"2023-11-26T20:28:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=2601"},"modified":"2023-11-28T23:09:04","modified_gmt":"2023-11-28T23:09:04","slug":"the-torch-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/the-poems\/the-torch-2\/","title":{"rendered":"The Torch!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> The Torch!<br \/>\nby cricketjeff on April 7, 2008.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved<br \/>\nThe torch that stood beside kitchen door<br \/>\nWas part of life he could not do without<br \/>\nIf it was gone then he would scream and shout<br \/>\nAnd make a mess upon the kitchen floor<\/p>\n<p>If it was dark then he could not go out<br \/>\nWithout a light to chase the ghouls away<br \/>\nHe lived his life in fear and constant doubt<br \/>\nAnd in the kitchen he just has to stay<\/p>\n<p>If all you have to go on is a loo<br \/>\nThat&#8217;s really only suitable by day<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s probable that you would never stray<br \/>\nWithout a torch to show you what to do<\/p>\n<p>If you are scared of boogeymen at night<br \/>\nThen get an inside loo and fit a light!<br \/>\n Author notes<br \/>\nOK so I&#8217;ll probably write a proper one later or Lyndon will drum me out of the<br \/>\nWinklings!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Torch! by cricketjeff on April 7, 2008.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved The torch that stood beside kitchen door Was part of life he could not do without If it was gone then he would scream and shout And make a mess upon the kitchen floor If it was dark then he could [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":9742,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2601","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2601","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=2601"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2601\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8907,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2601\/revisions\/8907"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}