{"id":3045,"date":"2023-11-26T20:27:55","date_gmt":"2023-11-26T20:27:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=3045"},"modified":"2023-11-28T22:00:01","modified_gmt":"2023-11-28T22:00:01","slug":"in-africa","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/i-poems\/in-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"In Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> In Africa<br \/>\nby cricketjeff on July 23, 2008.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nGolden fountain pens<br \/>\non marble tables<br \/>\nfine words<br \/>\nfrom bemedalled men<br \/>\nSmiles, opulence<br \/>\nand too many uniforms<\/p>\n<p>Queues for food<br \/>\nas planes bring supplies<\/p>\n<p>of arms<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Alone and terrified<\/p>\n<p>they came in the night<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nNow she is alone.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Mummy!&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;Daddy!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Silence.<\/p>\n<p>All she has left,<br \/>\nthe memory<br \/>\nof screams<\/p>\n<p>and blood.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n Author notes<br \/>\nRaw and in free verse was the request. Raw enough?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Africa by cricketjeff on July 23, 2008.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved \u00a0 Golden fountain pens on marble tables fine words from bemedalled men Smiles, opulence and too many uniforms Queues for food as planes bring supplies of arms \u00a0 \u00a0 Alone and terrified they came in the night \u00a0 Now she is [&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-3045","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3045","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=3045"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3045\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8464,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3045\/revisions\/8464"}],"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=3045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}