{"id":2859,"date":"2023-11-26T20:28:12","date_gmt":"2023-11-26T20:28:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=2859"},"modified":"2023-11-28T23:04:46","modified_gmt":"2023-11-28T23:04:46","slug":"the-ghost","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/the-poems\/the-ghost\/","title":{"rendered":"The ghost"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> The ghost<br \/>\nby cricketjeff on June 13, 2008.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved<br \/>\nHe didn&#8217;t remember dying, which was odd<br \/>\nBut dying he certainly did &#8217;cause he&#8217;s a ghost<br \/>\nOne morning he woke up dead, the silly sod,<br \/>\nAnd bald, I don&#8217;t know which surprised him most.<\/p>\n<p>Now haunting is the way he spends his days<br \/>\nHanging around the house and saying boo<br \/>\nAnnoying all of us in many ways<br \/>\nAnd finding lots of mischief he can do<\/p>\n<p>Maybe its not all fun so thin and white<br \/>\nYou stumble through walls and can&#8217;t lie down in bed<br \/>\nVisible clearly just at dead of night<br \/>\nWith half an axehead buried on your head<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0 Pluses I&#8217;d mention there are two or three<br \/>\n\u00a0 He doesn&#8217;t have to work like you and me<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p> Author notes<br \/>\nWell it&#8217;s sort of a sonnet I suppose.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The ghost by cricketjeff on June 13, 2008.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved He didn&#8217;t remember dying, which was odd But dying he certainly did &#8217;cause he&#8217;s a ghost One morning he woke up dead, the silly sod, And bald, I don&#8217;t know which surprised him most. Now haunting is the way he spends [&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-2859","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2859","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=2859"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2859\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8649,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2859\/revisions\/8649"}],"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=2859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}