{"id":2758,"date":"2023-11-26T20:28:13","date_gmt":"2023-11-26T20:28:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=2758"},"modified":"2023-11-28T22:45:35","modified_gmt":"2023-11-28T22:45:35","slug":"my-families","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/m-poems\/my-families\/","title":{"rendered":"My families"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> My families<br \/>\nby cricketjeff on May 19, 2008.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved<br \/>\nWhen I was born before the war<br \/>\nWith brothers on each side<br \/>\nI could not know what was in store<br \/>\nWhat secrets I would hide<\/p>\n<p>No sooner built than bright young pair<br \/>\nHad moved into my halls<br \/>\nTo start a life with little care<br \/>\nProtected by my walls<\/p>\n<p>Though bombers flew they missed my street<br \/>\nAnd little children came<br \/>\nMy floors all rang to tiny feet<br \/>\nWith army leave to blame!<\/p>\n<p>My garden filled with things to eat<br \/>\nMust dig for victory<br \/>\nAnd when the fighting was complete<br \/>\nThe husband came home free<\/p>\n<p>A quiet time as children grew<br \/>\nAnd then they went away<br \/>\nI loved to shelter just my two<br \/>\nGrandchildren came to stay!<\/p>\n<p>First he got old and then he died<br \/>\nThe garden overgrew<br \/>\nShe took a lodger safe inside<br \/>\nAnother life I knew<\/p>\n<p>Then their time came, I stood alone<br \/>\nUntil the new arrived<br \/>\nTwo kids, a couple and a loan<br \/>\nBut very soon they thrived<\/p>\n<p>Two more babies, I was filled<br \/>\nI watched them live and play<br \/>\nAlthough I love then I was thrilled<br \/>\nWhen two had moved away!<\/p>\n<p>I know that soon they&#8217;ll just be two<br \/>\nA quiet time again<br \/>\nI just keep doing what I do<br \/>\nThat&#8217;s keeping out the rain!<br \/>\n Author notes<br \/>\nA potted and relatively accurate history of the my own house.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My families by cricketjeff on May 19, 2008.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved When I was born before the war With brothers on each side I could not know what was in store What secrets I would hide No sooner built than bright young pair Had moved into my halls To start a life [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":9728,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2758","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2758","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=2758"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2758\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8752,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2758\/revisions\/8752"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}