{"id":3090,"date":"2023-11-26T20:27:54","date_gmt":"2023-11-26T20:27:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=3090"},"modified":"2023-11-28T23:04:47","modified_gmt":"2023-11-28T23:04:47","slug":"the-marvels-of-nature","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/the-poems\/the-marvels-of-nature\/","title":{"rendered":"The marvels of nature"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> The marvels of nature<br \/>\nby cricketjeff on August 6, 2008.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved<br \/>\nA sudden flash explodes across the sky<br \/>\nThe windows shake before the drums of rain<br \/>\nLong tears of light illuminate the sky<br \/>\nWhile tears of clouds can wash away the strain<\/p>\n<p>The sparrows huddle in the garden arch<br \/>\nThe clematis contains the blackbirds brood<br \/>\nA magpie looks for shelter in a larch<br \/>\nAnd even pigeons have no thought of food<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s like the world&#8217;s first wash for many weeks<br \/>\nAnd I am stood relaxing as it pours<br \/>\nWith streams of water washing down my cheeks<br \/>\nWho else is daft as me and out of doors<\/p>\n<p>A thunderstorm when Summer&#8217;s at it&#8217;s height<br \/>\nIs surely mother nature&#8217;s finest sight<\/p>\n<p> Author notes<br \/>\nOK so I can write about thunderstorms and keep it non-erotic!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The marvels of nature by cricketjeff on August 6, 2008.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved A sudden flash explodes across the sky The windows shake before the drums of rain Long tears of light illuminate the sky While tears of clouds can wash away the strain The sparrows huddle in the garden arch The [&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-3090","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3090","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=3090"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3090\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8418,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3090\/revisions\/8418"}],"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=3090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}