{"id":2665,"date":"2023-11-26T20:28:15","date_gmt":"2023-11-26T20:28:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=2665"},"modified":"2023-11-28T23:04:46","modified_gmt":"2023-11-28T23:04:46","slug":"the-greatest-hope-of-man","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/the-poems\/the-greatest-hope-of-man\/","title":{"rendered":"The greatest hope of man"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> The greatest hope of man<br \/>\nby cricketjeff on April 21, 2008.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved<br \/>\nWith poetry the greatest hope of man,<br \/>\nThere is no need to put your thoughts in prose,<br \/>\nRely on rhyme and meter where you can.<\/p>\n<p>Philosophers and scientists who plan,<br \/>\nThink verse the best solution to propose,<br \/>\nWith poetry the greatest hope of man.<\/p>\n<p>The way to put your case with great elan,<br \/>\nIs used by every clever man who knows,<br \/>\nRely on rhyme and meter where you can.<\/p>\n<p>If you want to overturn a ban.<br \/>\nYou need to find a way your story glows.<br \/>\nWith poetry the greatest hope of man.<\/p>\n<p>In Europe, USA or in Japan,<br \/>\nTo show the way your knowledge always grows,<br \/>\nRely on rhyme and meter where you can.<\/p>\n<p>If your ideas the best since time began.<br \/>\nTo make quite sure your erudition shows<br \/>\nRely on rhyme and meter where you can,<br \/>\nWith poetry the greatest hope of man.<br \/>\n Author notes<br \/>\nOK it started out as a rather grander idea than the execution, but I throw it<br \/>\non the mercy of the judge. The only way to improve is to practice, and after<br \/>\nthat BOY do I need to practice!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The greatest hope of man by cricketjeff on April 21, 2008.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved With poetry the greatest hope of man, There is no need to put your thoughts in prose, Rely on rhyme and meter where you can. Philosophers and scientists who plan, Think verse the best solution to propose, With [&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-2665","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2665","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=2665"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2665\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8843,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2665\/revisions\/8843"}],"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=2665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}