{"id":2861,"date":"2023-11-26T20:28:12","date_gmt":"2023-11-26T20:28:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=2861"},"modified":"2023-11-28T22:53:32","modified_gmt":"2023-11-28T22:53:32","slug":"perfect-day","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/p-poems\/perfect-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Perfect day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Perfect day<br \/>\nby cricketjeff on June 13, 2008.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved<br \/>\nThe stars that ruled ruled the night are put away<br \/>\nThe brilliance of the Sun sends them to bed<br \/>\nA tranquil blue bedecks a summer&#8217;s day<br \/>\nA pristine canvas stretches overhead<\/p>\n<p>The birds and bees are flitting through the flowers<br \/>\nThere is no other scene I&#8217;d wish to see<br \/>\nThe hunt for food will fill their daytime hours<br \/>\nTheir beauty will be there for you and me<\/p>\n<p>On such a day I&#8217;m glad to be awake<br \/>\nWhile friends abroad aren&#8217;t troubled in their sleep<br \/>\nThe magic of each season cannot break<br \/>\nThe truths of life whose anchors are so deep<\/p>\n<p>If underneath the Sun or diamond stars<br \/>\nThe world deserves the time to heal its scars<br \/>\n Author notes<br \/>\nThis is a pair with my previous poem, silent night, check the ends of lines<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Perfect day by cricketjeff on June 13, 2008.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved The stars that ruled ruled the night are put away The brilliance of the Sun sends them to bed A tranquil blue bedecks a summer&#8217;s day A pristine canvas stretches overhead The birds and bees are flitting through the flowers There [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":9734,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2861","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2861","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=2861"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2861\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8647,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2861\/revisions\/8647"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}