{"id":3108,"date":"2023-11-26T20:27:54","date_gmt":"2023-11-26T20:27:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=3108"},"modified":"2023-11-28T22:50:49","modified_gmt":"2023-11-28T22:50:49","slug":"odds-and-sods-in-a-cluttered-mind-on-monday","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/o-poems\/odds-and-sods-in-a-cluttered-mind-on-monday\/","title":{"rendered":"Odds and Sods in a cluttered mind on Monday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Odds and Sods in a cluttered mind on Monday<br \/>\nby cricketjeff on August 11, 2008.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved<br \/>\nI&#8217;m Listening to cricket while I work at this and that<br \/>\nComposing poetry inside my mind<br \/>\nA friend just called me on the phone, we had a little chat<br \/>\nYet somehow Mondays still contrive to grind<br \/>\nThere isn&#8217;t any sense to it, it&#8217;s just another day<br \/>\nBut nobody would really mind if they were swept away<\/p>\n<p>A cut through extra cover and the update script completes<br \/>\nI better have a look at all those logs<br \/>\nI feel a little better as I chew my birthday sweets<br \/>\nAnd dream that you were here for lots of snogs<br \/>\nI&#8217;ve never understood it Mondays should not make me blue<br \/>\nWhy can&#8217;t it be a Sunday and why can&#8217;t I be with you?<\/p>\n<p>Oh damn it Bell has just been bowled, Ntini screams with joy<br \/>\nJust fifty more and England will have won<br \/>\nI&#8217;m looking at some software that my website could employ<br \/>\nAnother wicket goes, this isn&#8217;t fun<br \/>\nSnap out of it you silly clot, you know things will work out<br \/>\nBut Mondays are the only days that have such room for doubt<\/p>\n<p>A cup of tea? Now that&#8217;s more like! Shrug off the mournful mood<br \/>\nStop writing tosh, and dunk a ginger nut<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s time to hit the kitchen and to rustle up some food<br \/>\nAnd time this box of musings should be shut<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s only Monday once a week, and Tuesday follows soon<br \/>\nAnd all of you have guessed it, that&#8217;s a perfect rhyme for Moon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Odds and Sods in a cluttered mind on Monday by cricketjeff on August 11, 2008.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved I&#8217;m Listening to cricket while I work at this and that Composing poetry inside my mind A friend just called me on the phone, we had a little chat Yet somehow Mondays still contrive [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":9732,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-3108","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3108","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=3108"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3108\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8399,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3108\/revisions\/8399"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}