{"id":3050,"date":"2023-11-26T20:27:55","date_gmt":"2023-11-26T20:27:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=3050"},"modified":"2023-11-28T22:45:35","modified_gmt":"2023-11-28T22:45:35","slug":"my-england","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/m-poems\/my-england\/","title":{"rendered":"My England"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> My England<br \/>\nby cricketjeff on July 24, 2008.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved<br \/>\nMy England means a summer Sunday<br \/>\nFilled with beef and cream and fruit<br \/>\nNever with a thought of Monday<br \/>\nEarly morning tie and suit<br \/>\nAt the Oval watching cricket<br \/>\nEyes half closed to dream of you<br \/>\nWide awake to cheer a wicket<br \/>\nNothing else on Earth will do<\/p>\n<p>England means some woodland walking<br \/>\nSmell of pine trees, dappled air<br \/>\nFriends around but not much talking<br \/>\nAnd I feel you everywhere<br \/>\nSpring in Lakeland, striding edges<br \/>\nFar below a tarn lies still<br \/>\nScramble up on mountain ledges<br \/>\nMind to wander where it will<\/p>\n<p>England is a beach in Winter<br \/>\nWinds arrive from where you live<br \/>\nCold so sharp your breath can splinter<br \/>\nAll the hope a life can give<br \/>\nSkimming stones or dodging breakers<br \/>\nWeather changes on a whim<br \/>\nSwapping dreams with any takers<br \/>\nChances of a match are slim<\/p>\n<p>England means an Autumn harvest<br \/>\nEvery apple known to man<br \/>\nThunderstorms where hopes are darkest<br \/>\nGolden sunsets mend the plan<br \/>\nEngland means my home forever<br \/>\nEven though you&#8217;re far away<br \/>\nBut anyone the least bit clever<br \/>\nKnows home mayn&#8217;t be where you stay<br \/>\n Author notes<br \/>\nNeeds work yet<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My England by cricketjeff on July 24, 2008.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved My England means a summer Sunday Filled with beef and cream and fruit Never with a thought of Monday Early morning tie and suit At the Oval watching cricket Eyes half closed to dream of you Wide awake to cheer a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":9728,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-3050","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3050","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=3050"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3050\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8459,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3050\/revisions\/8459"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}