{"id":2806,"date":"2023-11-26T20:28:12","date_gmt":"2023-11-26T20:28:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=2806"},"modified":"2023-11-27T22:40:39","modified_gmt":"2023-11-27T22:40:39","slug":"air-mail","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/a-poems\/air-mail\/","title":{"rendered":"Air mail"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Air mail<br \/>\nby cricketjeff on June 2, 2008.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved<br \/>\n[Posts%20by%20cricketjeff%203_files\/975.html]<\/p>\n<p>Sat in her garden and holding her love<br \/>\nPut in a basket beneath the balloon<br \/>\nCarried North West by the winds up above<br \/>\nA tiny red dot on the face of the moon<\/p>\n<p>Sat in my garden descending so gently<br \/>\nThe love of my love at the end of a string<br \/>\nDriven by gods in an air going Bentley<br \/>\nOne special gift that I hoped they would bring<\/p>\n<p>The poem you&#8217;re reading must be my reply<br \/>\nI send back my love to her love from the sky<\/p>\n<p> Author notes<br \/>\nA highly informal curtal sonnet, decasyllabic but in tetrameter and two 11<br \/>\nsyllable lines to accomodate feminine rhyme<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Air mail by cricketjeff on June 2, 2008.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved [Posts%20by%20cricketjeff%203_files\/975.html] Sat in her garden and holding her love Put in a basket beneath the balloon Carried North West by the winds up above A tiny red dot on the face of the moon Sat in my garden descending so gently [&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-2806","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2806","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=2806"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2806\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8702,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2806\/revisions\/8702"}],"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=2806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}