{"id":3146,"date":"2023-11-26T20:27:53","date_gmt":"2023-11-26T20:27:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=3146"},"modified":"2023-11-28T23:04:47","modified_gmt":"2023-11-28T23:04:47","slug":"the-other-side","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/the-poems\/the-other-side\/","title":{"rendered":"The other side"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> The other side<br \/>\nby cricketjeff on August 20, 2008.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved<br \/>\nA coal black heart has asked me for a shock<br \/>\nTo rip away the comfort that she sees<br \/>\nI&#8217;ll place romance and love upon the block<br \/>\nAnd chop sweet innocence off at the knees<br \/>\n\u00a0 The truth is life is dark and full of pain<br \/>\n\u00a0 There are no silver boxes in the clouds<br \/>\n\u00a0 I&#8217;ll never welcome happiness again<br \/>\n\u00a0 but live the rest of life encased in shrouds<br \/>\nAs summer ebbs away to winter&#8217;s hold<br \/>\nAnd sunshine flees these shores to other lands<br \/>\nI&#8217;ll never get to win my share of gold<br \/>\nJust watch my dreams turn real in other hands<br \/>\n\u00a0 Descend to darkest depths then turn away<br \/>\n\u00a0 There are no happy endings here today<\/p>\n<p> Author notes<br \/>\nOK you wanted different [Posts%20by%20cricketjeff%203_files\/happy.gif]<\/p>\n<p>I prefer the love songs!!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The other side by cricketjeff on August 20, 2008.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved A coal black heart has asked me for a shock To rip away the comfort that she sees I&#8217;ll place romance and love upon the block And chop sweet innocence off at the knees \u00a0 The truth is life is [&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-3146","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3146","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=3146"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3146\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8361,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3146\/revisions\/8361"}],"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=3146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}