{"id":2684,"date":"2023-11-26T20:28:14","date_gmt":"2023-11-26T20:28:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=2684"},"modified":"2023-11-28T23:04:46","modified_gmt":"2023-11-28T23:04:46","slug":"the-guardians","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/the-poems\/the-guardians\/","title":{"rendered":"The Guardians"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> The Guardians<br \/>\nby cricketjeff on April 27, 2008.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved<br \/>\nWe&#8217;ll stand beside the sacred spring of life<br \/>\nAnd hold it safe despite what man would do<br \/>\nFor dragonkind was here when life was new<br \/>\nAnd still stands guard against the worst of strife<\/p>\n<p>So deep within this orb we call the Earth<br \/>\nWhere life began within the heated rocks<br \/>\n&#8216;Twas dragonfire that cleared away the blocks<br \/>\nSo DNA could prove its vital worth<\/p>\n<p>And now the noble beasts must stand and fight<br \/>\nTo save the world of life from mortal doom<br \/>\nYou&#8217;ll see their mighty shapes within the gloom<br \/>\nWhen folly by our leaders kills the light<\/p>\n<p>The magic that they hold within their fire<br \/>\nThey&#8217;ll spend to see that life cannot expire<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Guardians by cricketjeff on April 27, 2008.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved We&#8217;ll stand beside the sacred spring of life And hold it safe despite what man would do For dragonkind was here when life was new And still stands guard against the worst of strife So deep within this orb we call [&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-2684","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2684","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=2684"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2684\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8826,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2684\/revisions\/8826"}],"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=2684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}