{"id":2934,"date":"2023-11-26T20:27:56","date_gmt":"2023-11-26T20:27:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=2934"},"modified":"2023-11-28T22:00:00","modified_gmt":"2023-11-28T22:00:00","slug":"i-smile-for-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/i-poems\/i-smile-for-2\/","title":{"rendered":"I smile for &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> I smile for &#8230;<br \/>\nby cricketjeff on June 30, 2008.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved<br \/>\nA metaphor that changes how I see<br \/>\nA friendly act that shows that love&#8217;s alive<br \/>\nSuccess for those who really have to strive<br \/>\nOr just a line of perfect poetry<\/p>\n<p>A word that shows the world a diff&#8217;rent side<br \/>\nEach man who&#8217;d miss his bus to help a child<br \/>\nBirds eating from your hand although they&#8217;re wild<br \/>\nSuccess at something new a friend has tried<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d like to live my life behind a smile<br \/>\nI want to make the world a kinder place<br \/>\nTo see each man display a happy face<br \/>\nSo I can be contented for a while<\/p>\n<p>A smiling face can blow the clouds away<br \/>\nSo smile at everyone you meet today<\/p>\n<p> Author notes<br \/>\nA &#8220;Variant English (or Shakespearian) sonnet&#8221; sometimes called a Canadian<br \/>\nsonnet. Less common than rhyming abab cdcd efef gg the abba cddc effe gg<br \/>\npattern was also originated by Wyatt and Surry who first brought the Sonnet to<br \/>\nEngland from Italy but who found that abbaabba cdcdcd rhyming did not work well<br \/>\nin Early modern English.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I smile for &#8230; by cricketjeff on June 30, 2008.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved A metaphor that changes how I see A friendly act that shows that love&#8217;s alive Success for those who really have to strive Or just a line of perfect poetry A word that shows the world a diff&#8217;rent side [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":9718,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2934","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2934","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=2934"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2934\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8575,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2934\/revisions\/8575"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}