{"id":2935,"date":"2023-11-26T20:27:56","date_gmt":"2023-11-26T20:27:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=2935"},"modified":"2023-11-28T23:04:47","modified_gmt":"2023-11-28T23:04:47","slug":"the-only-dot-that-counts","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/the-poems\/the-only-dot-that-counts\/","title":{"rendered":"The only dot that counts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> The only dot that counts<br \/>\nby cricketjeff on July 1, 2008.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved<br \/>\nOne million billion stars out there<br \/>\nEnclosed in empty space<br \/>\nThere&#8217;s far too much of everywhere<br \/>\nTo find the human race<\/p>\n<p>For thirteen billion years or more<br \/>\nThe stars have lived and died<br \/>\nTo think that we are what it&#8217;s for<br \/>\nIs just our foolish pride<\/p>\n<p>Through endless tracts of empty space<br \/>\nFor ever and a day<br \/>\nYou&#8217;d hunt to find a friendly face<br \/>\nAnd never find a way<\/p>\n<p>For every man alive on Earth<br \/>\nThere&#8217;s galaxies to spare<br \/>\nThe best of us are hardly worth<br \/>\nThe weight of nothing there<\/p>\n<p>And yet, if lost, I know I&#8217;d find<br \/>\nEach microscopic clue<br \/>\nFor me there&#8217;d be no peace of mind<br \/>\nIf I did not have you<\/p>\n<p> Author notes<br \/>\n&#8220;You are just a dot in the Cosmos &#8230; you are here &#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The only dot that counts by cricketjeff on July 1, 2008.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved One million billion stars out there Enclosed in empty space There&#8217;s far too much of everywhere To find the human race For thirteen billion years or more The stars have lived and died To think that we are [&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-2935","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2935","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=2935"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2935\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8571,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2935\/revisions\/8571"}],"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=2935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}