{"id":2603,"date":"2023-11-26T20:28:15","date_gmt":"2023-11-26T20:28:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=2603"},"modified":"2023-11-28T23:09:04","modified_gmt":"2023-11-28T23:09:04","slug":"the-torch","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/the-poems\/the-torch\/","title":{"rendered":"The Torch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> The Torch<br \/>\nby cricketjeff on April 7, 2008.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved<br \/>\nOn Mount Olympus fire will spawn<br \/>\nThe flame to which the athletes pledge<br \/>\nBut do they know the games were born<br \/>\nOn Wenlock Edge<\/p>\n<p>Ere A E Houseman was a lad<br \/>\nDoctor Brookes set up the games<br \/>\nModern Olympics&#8217; real Dad<br \/>\nNot other names<\/p>\n<p>Baron Coubertin went there<br \/>\nHe had to meet this famous man<br \/>\nFrom this time he would prepare<br \/>\nHis greatest plan<\/p>\n<p>From eighteen fifty until now<br \/>\nOlympic Games in Shropshire&#8217;s heart<br \/>\nDoctor Brookes has shown us how<br \/>\nSuch things can start<\/p>\n<p>So now we see the torch is lit<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s carried for the world to see<br \/>\nAnd sportsmen try to do their bit<br \/>\nTo set men free<\/p>\n<p>The Chinese did not think Tibet<br \/>\nWas where the torch would shed its light<br \/>\nBut now they surely will regret<br \/>\nThat state&#8217;s long night<\/p>\n<p>A torch will shine on good and ill<br \/>\nAnd flames will burn the lies away<br \/>\nThe truth we know is burning still<br \/>\nA bright new day!<br \/>\n Author notes<br \/>\nThe modern Olympics were born at Much Wenlock in 1850, Baron Coubertin heard of<br \/>\nthem when they moved to Crystal Palace for one year in 1866, in 1890 he came to<br \/>\nmeet Doctor Brookes and to see the games, he acknowledged the part these games<br \/>\nplayed in his plans, but Doctor Brookes died before the &#8220;first&#8221; modern Olympiad<br \/>\nin 1896.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Torch by cricketjeff on April 7, 2008.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved On Mount Olympus fire will spawn The flame to which the athletes pledge But do they know the games were born On Wenlock Edge Ere A E Houseman was a lad Doctor Brookes set up the games Modern Olympics&#8217; real Dad [&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-2603","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2603","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=2603"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2603\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8906,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2603\/revisions\/8906"}],"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=2603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}