{"id":3124,"date":"2023-11-26T20:27:54","date_gmt":"2023-11-26T20:27:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=3124"},"modified":"2023-11-28T23:09:04","modified_gmt":"2023-11-28T23:09:04","slug":"the-unknown","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/the-poems\/the-unknown\/","title":{"rendered":"The unknown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> The unknown<br \/>\nby cricketjeff on August 15, 2008.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved<br \/>\nI have never known silence<br \/>\nmy head fills with the sounds<br \/>\nof my thoughts.<\/p>\n<p>Echoes of streams of ideas<br \/>\nas they bounce off the edges<br \/>\nof the well<br \/>\nand drop at last<br \/>\ninto the water far below.<\/p>\n<p>Voices that talk to me<br \/>\nin rhyme or prose.<br \/>\nThat play with my day<br \/>\nand tease and please<br \/>\nme with words.<\/p>\n<p>Snatches of every song<br \/>\nall of every poem<br \/>\nrecordings of my memories<br \/>\nall the time.<\/p>\n<p>And then there are the sounds<br \/>\nthe air breathing as it runs<br \/>\naround the house.<br \/>\nThe floor sighing in the dark<br \/>\nwhen all the house is asleep<br \/>\nThe birds, singing and fighting<br \/>\nCars and lorries and trains<br \/>\nfar away.<\/p>\n<p>And my dreams, loudest of all<br \/>\nare my dreams.<br \/>\nSearching for a way to escape<br \/>\nthey laugh and shout and scream<br \/>\ntrying to be me.<\/p>\n<p>I have never known silence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The unknown by cricketjeff on August 15, 2008.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved I have never known silence my head fills with the sounds of my thoughts. Echoes of streams of ideas as they bounce off the edges of the well and drop at last into the water far below. Voices that talk to [&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-3124","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3124","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=3124"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3124\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8383,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3124\/revisions\/8383"}],"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=3124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}