{"id":2815,"date":"2023-11-26T20:28:12","date_gmt":"2023-11-26T20:28:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=2815"},"modified":"2023-11-28T22:56:38","modified_gmt":"2023-11-28T22:56:38","slug":"reflections","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/r-poems\/reflections\/","title":{"rendered":"Reflections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Reflections<br \/>\nby cricketjeff on June 4, 2008.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved<br \/>\nI think that I should really know that I<br \/>\nDo not react the way that others do<br \/>\nWhy do I never stop to ask just why<br \/>\nYou other folk are so much more like you<\/p>\n<p>No way should I forget the things I know<br \/>\nBe more alert to how they want to be<br \/>\nShow more respect than I need them to show<br \/>\nSee all the ways that they want me to see<\/p>\n<p>Shut up my mouth and learn to keep it shut<br \/>\nThat must be what I&#8217;d say about all that<br \/>\nBut I am more inclined to leave my butt<br \/>\nSat squarely where it never should be sat<\/p>\n<p>Reflect upon the way that things reflect<br \/>\nCorrect yourself and try to act correct<\/p>\n<p> Author notes<br \/>\nThis wasn&#8217;t written for broadcast but I thought, why not?<\/p>\n<p>A Shadow sonnet in a reflective mood seems appropriate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reflections by cricketjeff on June 4, 2008.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved I think that I should really know that I Do not react the way that others do Why do I never stop to ask just why You other folk are so much more like you No way should I forget the things [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":9738,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2815","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2815","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=2815"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2815\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8693,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2815\/revisions\/8693"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9738"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}