{"id":2999,"date":"2023-11-26T20:27:55","date_gmt":"2023-11-26T20:27:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=2999"},"modified":"2023-11-28T23:09:53","modified_gmt":"2023-11-28T23:09:53","slug":"toytown","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/t-poems\/toytown\/","title":{"rendered":"Toytown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Toytown<br \/>\nby cricketjeff on July 14, 2008.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved<br \/>\nHe swings the propeller the engine ignites<br \/>\nThen jumps in the cockpit and heads for the heights<br \/>\nWhile far down below him magnificent sights<br \/>\nAre turning themselves into toytown<\/p>\n<p>The engine is roaring there&#8217;s wind in his face<br \/>\nHe&#8217;s free of the ground in this wide open space<br \/>\nWith birds all around him that want to play chase<br \/>\nIn the air above dear little toytown<\/p>\n<p>He learnt about flying to fight in a war<br \/>\nHalf a lifetime ago when the nations were sore<br \/>\nBut really this fighting, what is it all for?<br \/>\nNow he&#8217;s home in the air above toytown<\/p>\n<p>The engine starts spluttering it&#8217;s time he must land<br \/>\nBefore all the fuels gone and landing&#8217;s &#8220;unplanned&#8221;<br \/>\nHe&#8217;d rather land safely as you&#8217;ll understand<br \/>\nSo he heads for a field outside toytown<\/p>\n<p>With bumping and bouncing he lands by the crop<br \/>\nAnd slowly his aircraft is brought to a stop<br \/>\nHe jumps from the cockpit and savours the drop<br \/>\nNow it&#8217;s real and it isn&#8217;t like toytown<\/p>\n<p>Tomorrow our pilot will take off again<br \/>\nAnd circle the landscape in his ancient plane<br \/>\nAnd do it each day that his heart takes the strain<br \/>\nHe hopes that he&#8217;ll die over toytown!<\/p>\n<p> Author notes<br \/>\nJust a little story, I hope you like<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Toytown by cricketjeff on July 14, 2008.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved He swings the propeller the engine ignites Then jumps in the cockpit and heads for the heights While far down below him magnificent sights Are turning themselves into toytown The engine is roaring there&#8217;s wind in his face He&#8217;s free of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":9748,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2999","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2999","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=2999"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2999\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8509,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2999\/revisions\/8509"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}