{"id":2696,"date":"2023-11-26T20:28:14","date_gmt":"2023-11-26T20:28:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=2696"},"modified":"2023-11-28T23:04:47","modified_gmt":"2023-11-28T23:04:47","slug":"the-playwright","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/the-poems\/the-playwright\/","title":{"rendered":"The playwright"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> The playwright<br \/>\nby cricketjeff on May 2, 2008.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved<br \/>\nIt is the finest tool that man has owned<br \/>\nThe true embodiment of every thought<br \/>\nUntil he lived the edge was never honed<br \/>\nMankind was sitting waiting to be taught<br \/>\nHe told the tale of all it is to be<br \/>\nIn words that burn his vision in the mind<br \/>\nHe used his pen to set the language free<br \/>\nIn ways no mortal poet ought to find<br \/>\nHe may have gone but lives with us each day<br \/>\nWill never die while men have need of speech<br \/>\nWe use his gift in most of what we say<br \/>\nHis genius is always kept in reach<br \/>\n\u00a0 The wordsmith from a humble Midland town<br \/>\n\u00a0 Who wrote the gems that decorate the crown<\/p>\n<p> Author notes<br \/>\nOK so someone had to have the brass neck to do this one.<\/p>\n<p>Option 4 and My favourite film is The General<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The playwright by cricketjeff on May 2, 2008.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved It is the finest tool that man has owned The true embodiment of every thought Until he lived the edge was never honed Mankind was sitting waiting to be taught He told the tale of all it is to be In [&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-2696","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2696","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=2696"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2696\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8813,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2696\/revisions\/8813"}],"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=2696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}