{"id":3009,"date":"2023-11-26T20:27:55","date_gmt":"2023-11-26T20:27:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=3009"},"modified":"2023-11-28T23:06:35","modified_gmt":"2023-11-28T23:06:35","slug":"the-queen-of-happy-sad","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/the-poems\/the-queen-of-happy-sad\/","title":{"rendered":"The Queen of Happy Sad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> The Queen of Happy Sad<br \/>\nby cricketjeff on July 16, 2008.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved<br \/>\n\ufeffYou made me learn the way I want to write<br \/>\nSo I could help you show what you could do<br \/>\nYou fill your lines with all the darkest light<br \/>\nAnd make the brightest sunshine feel so blue<\/p>\n<p>Though sensuality is in your range<br \/>\nAnd funny thoughts can spring right off the page<br \/>\nYou make us cry with tales we think are strange<br \/>\nAnd sometime write a play that life must stage<\/p>\n<p>You master meter with amazing ease<br \/>\nYour rhyme is sharp yet subtle when you need<br \/>\nI cannot write a list of those you please<br \/>\nThe list expands above my writing speed<\/p>\n<p>The Queen of angst and songs so &#8220;happy sad&#8221;<br \/>\nAnd yet a friend who leaves me feeling glad<\/p>\n<p> Author notes<br \/>\nSue_Cardwell a great poet and a friend<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Queen of Happy Sad by cricketjeff on July 16, 2008.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved \ufeffYou made me learn the way I want to write So I could help you show what you could do You fill your lines with all the darkest light And make the brightest sunshine feel so blue Though [&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-3009","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3009","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=3009"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3009\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8499,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3009\/revisions\/8499"}],"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=3009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}