{"id":2781,"date":"2023-11-26T20:28:13","date_gmt":"2023-11-26T20:28:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=2781"},"modified":"2023-11-27T22:42:57","modified_gmt":"2023-11-27T22:42:57","slug":"an-alaskan-poet","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/a-poems\/an-alaskan-poet\/","title":{"rendered":"An Alaskan poet."},"content":{"rendered":"<p> An Alaskan poet.<br \/>\nby cricketjeff on May 27, 2008.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved<br \/>\nHalf a world away it&#8217;s also spring<br \/>\nAnd poets look out on a brand new scene<br \/>\nSweet flowers bloom and birds are on the wing<br \/>\nAlaska changes coat from white to green<\/p>\n<p>In modern times the world is rather small<br \/>\nAnd I have friends who see each tiny part<br \/>\nBetween us we can know about it all<br \/>\nAnd try to put it down in this our art<\/p>\n<p>Five hundred times you&#8217;ve given us your mind<br \/>\nAnd painted with a brush of liquid words<br \/>\nSo now take breath I think that you should find<br \/>\nA little time to gaze at plants and birds<\/p>\n<p>Then when you are refreshed, you know the score<br \/>\nTake up your pen and write five hundred more!<\/p>\n<p> Author notes<br \/>\nIn tribute to MJ Donnelly&#8217;s 500th poem on AP<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An Alaskan poet. by cricketjeff on May 27, 2008.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved Half a world away it&#8217;s also spring And poets look out on a brand new scene Sweet flowers bloom and birds are on the wing Alaska changes coat from white to green In modern times the world is rather small [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":9692,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2781","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2781","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=2781"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2781\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8728,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2781\/revisions\/8728"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}