{"id":2722,"date":"2023-11-26T20:28:14","date_gmt":"2023-11-26T20:28:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=2722"},"modified":"2023-11-28T23:09:03","modified_gmt":"2023-11-28T23:09:03","slug":"the-song-of-the-night","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/the-poems\/the-song-of-the-night\/","title":{"rendered":"The song of the night"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> The song of the night<br \/>\nby cricketjeff on May 10, 2008.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved<br \/>\nMy pocket-watch tells me it&#8217;s ten to three,<br \/>\nThe moon peers though a silver tinted shroud.<br \/>\nThe sounds of darkness softly come to me,<br \/>\nBut demons seem to say no sleep allowed.<br \/>\nThe second hand sweeps slowly through its course<br \/>\nWhile all the world lies motionless in bed<br \/>\nAnd driven by a dark unspoken force<br \/>\nUnwelcome thoughts are living in my head.<br \/>\nThen beauty strikes a blow against the night,<br \/>\nA blackbird sings a burst of magic gold.<br \/>\nThe worries that had gripped me take to flight<br \/>\nAnd soft contentment starts to take a hold.<br \/>\n\u00a0 He sang his song at night in harmony,<br \/>\n\u00a0 To serenade his love, and comfort me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The song of the night by cricketjeff on May 10, 2008.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved My pocket-watch tells me it&#8217;s ten to three, The moon peers though a silver tinted shroud. The sounds of darkness softly come to me, But demons seem to say no sleep allowed. The second hand sweeps slowly through [&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-2722","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2722","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=2722"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2722\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8785,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2722\/revisions\/8785"}],"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=2722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}