{"id":2743,"date":"2023-11-26T20:28:13","date_gmt":"2023-11-26T20:28:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=2743"},"modified":"2023-11-28T23:09:04","modified_gmt":"2023-11-28T23:09:04","slug":"the-things-we-are-asked-to-do","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/the-poems\/the-things-we-are-asked-to-do\/","title":{"rendered":"The things we are asked to do"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> The things we are asked to do<br \/>\nby cricketjeff on May 16, 2008.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved<br \/>\nA song without rhyme is like bread without butter<br \/>\nDry and unint&#8217;resting, flat as a board<br \/>\nWasting your time at race with no flutter<br \/>\nAn actor who&#8217;s resting and always ignored<\/p>\n<p>Rhyme is the spice that makes singing exciting<br \/>\nTickles the tune and then tackles the notes<br \/>\nIt will sound nice with its homophones biting<br \/>\nA good rhyming croon will get all of the votes<\/p>\n<p>But I have been asked to write songs without rhyming<br \/>\nGoodness knows why must that is daft as a brush<br \/>\nSo all of the task is keep metrical timing<br \/>\nDon&#8217;t go all shy and run home in a rush<\/p>\n<p>The games that are set and the people who set them<br \/>\nPuzzle me greatly though goodness knows why<br \/>\nIt is with regret I admit I don&#8217;t get them<br \/>\nBeen getting worse lately is this time to fly?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The things we are asked to do by cricketjeff on May 16, 2008.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved A song without rhyme is like bread without butter Dry and unint&#8217;resting, flat as a board Wasting your time at race with no flutter An actor who&#8217;s resting and always ignored Rhyme is the spice that [&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-2743","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2743","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=2743"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2743\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8763,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2743\/revisions\/8763"}],"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=2743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}