{"id":3040,"date":"2023-11-26T20:27:55","date_gmt":"2023-11-26T20:27:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=3040"},"modified":"2023-11-28T23:04:46","modified_gmt":"2023-11-28T23:04:46","slug":"the-land-of-the-free","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/the-poems\/the-land-of-the-free\/","title":{"rendered":"The Land of the Free"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> The Land of the Free<br \/>\nby cricketjeff on July 22, 2008.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved<br \/>\nWhen we were born a nation of the free<br \/>\nOur founding Fathers wrote in words of fire<br \/>\nSo we should serve the cause of liberty<br \/>\nThe cradle for the spark of all desire<\/p>\n<p>We fought against our countrymen of old<br \/>\nAnd bought the rest from France for just a song<br \/>\nWe travelled West to find the fabled gold<br \/>\nAnd shot at anyone who we thought wrong<\/p>\n<p>Like children then but now we&#8217;ve had to grow<br \/>\nThe world has changed and we have borne our share<br \/>\nOur values still remain, though not on show<br \/>\nWe&#8217;d like to spread our freedoms everywhere<\/p>\n<p>From Washington to Martin Luther King<br \/>\nWe&#8217;ve learned to find the good in everything<\/p>\n<p>When we have peace on Earth and understand<br \/>\nThat ours is not the only way to live<br \/>\nThat not agreeing isn&#8217;t underhand<br \/>\nAnd other nations have a lot to give<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ll learn that we should only use our share<br \/>\nThat we can be the greatest and be good<br \/>\nWe have to give and take and play things fair<br \/>\nTo treat all other peoples as we should<\/p>\n<p>In time we&#8217;ll marry wealth to our ideals<br \/>\nAnd lead the world to greatness and the stars<br \/>\nWhere lubrication&#8217;s not for squeaky wheels<br \/>\nWith colonies across the Moon and Mars<\/p>\n<p>When that is done the Nation of the free<br \/>\nWill show the World a better way to be<\/p>\n<p> Author notes<br \/>\nStill editing, I&#8217;m not American if you couldn&#8217;t guess<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Land of the Free by cricketjeff on July 22, 2008.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved When we were born a nation of the free Our founding Fathers wrote in words of fire So we should serve the cause of liberty The cradle for the spark of all desire We fought against our countrymen [&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-3040","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3040","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=3040"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3040\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8468,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3040\/revisions\/8468"}],"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=3040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}