{"id":3163,"date":"2023-11-26T20:27:53","date_gmt":"2023-11-26T20:27:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=3163"},"modified":"2023-11-27T22:40:39","modified_gmt":"2023-11-27T22:40:39","slug":"aint-that-the-truth","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/a-poems\/aint-that-the-truth\/","title":{"rendered":"Ain\\&#8217;t that the truth!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Ain&#8217;t that the truth!<br \/>\nby cricketjeff on August 24, 2008.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved<br \/>\nNo good deed goes unpunished<br \/>\nNo kindness left unkicked<br \/>\nYour life will be unfunished<br \/>\nYour belly harshly sticked<\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t ever help a stranger<br \/>\nOr even one you love<br \/>\nYou&#8217;ll just end up in danger<br \/>\nOr canalled by a shove<\/p>\n<p>Each life you save will haunt you<br \/>\nAnd hurt you where it can<br \/>\nI do not want to daunt you<br \/>\nIt seems that there&#8217;s a plan<\/p>\n<p>So do not feed the starving<br \/>\nOr water those in drought<br \/>\nYour life is up for carving<br \/>\nThere isn&#8217;t any doubt<\/p>\n<p>I really was for aiding<br \/>\nAnd showing that I cared<br \/>\nBut life is now unbraiding<br \/>\nWith every trouble shared<\/p>\n<p>I wish I was a loner<br \/>\nWho&#8217;d pass by on the side<br \/>\nIt seems I&#8217;m now a moaner<br \/>\nAh well, at least I tried.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ain&#8217;t that the truth! by cricketjeff on August 24, 2008.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved No good deed goes unpunished No kindness left unkicked Your life will be unfunished Your belly harshly sticked Don&#8217;t ever help a stranger Or even one you love You&#8217;ll just end up in danger Or canalled by a shove [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":9692,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-3163","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3163","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=3163"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3163\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8346,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3163\/revisions\/8346"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}