{"id":2699,"date":"2023-11-26T20:28:14","date_gmt":"2023-11-26T20:28:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=2699"},"modified":"2023-11-28T23:06:35","modified_gmt":"2023-11-28T23:06:35","slug":"the-poet-laureate-of-skid-row","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/the-poems\/the-poet-laureate-of-skid-row\/","title":{"rendered":"The Poet Laureate of Skid Row."},"content":{"rendered":"<p> The Poet Laureate of Skid Row.<br \/>\nby cricketjeff on May 4, 2008.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved<br \/>\nA novelist and poet from the West.<br \/>\nAmerican, though born in Germany.<br \/>\nThe Post Office once gave this man his nest<br \/>\nUntil a publisher could set him free.<\/p>\n<p>He drank and smoked his way through what he wrote<br \/>\nBut women found him rather to their taste<br \/>\nSome of his work is much to raw to quote<br \/>\nThe rest of it is rather highly placed<\/p>\n<p>Los Angeles was always in his heart<br \/>\nThe town he learned and loved in every way<br \/>\nI found his writings rather hard to start<br \/>\nI&#8217;m glad a friend convinced me I should stay<\/p>\n<p>I haven&#8217;t read him much, I cannot lie<br \/>\nI&#8217;m pretty sure that he would say &#8220;Don&#8217;t try&#8221;<br \/>\n Author notes<br \/>\nI better up the number of allowed entries to take account of me filling up all<br \/>\nthe spaces.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Poet Laureate of Skid Row. by cricketjeff on May 4, 2008.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved A novelist and poet from the West. American, though born in Germany. The Post Office once gave this man his nest Until a publisher could set him free. He drank and smoked his way through what he [&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-2699","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2699","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=2699"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2699\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8810,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2699\/revisions\/8810"}],"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=2699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}