{"id":3168,"date":"2023-11-26T20:27:53","date_gmt":"2023-11-26T20:27:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=3168"},"modified":"2023-11-28T22:57:32","modified_gmt":"2023-11-28T22:57:32","slug":"resurrection-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/r-poems\/resurrection-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Resurrection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Resurrection<br \/>\nby cricketjeff on August 25, 2008.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved<br \/>\nI saw the flash and heard the mighty roar<br \/>\nThe oak was split and branches fell aside<br \/>\nThe blackened trunk raised fingers to the world<br \/>\nAnd life went on exactly as before<br \/>\nThe winter came and winds tore at the oak<br \/>\nYet broken as it was it would not yield<br \/>\nSo strong it saw a gale as but a breeze<br \/>\nA blackened stem of lifeless useless steel<br \/>\nYet come the spring a miracle occured<br \/>\nThough few some twigs showed green and vibrant leaves<br \/>\nThe hollow trunk gave shelter to a zoo<br \/>\nNo lightning strike could end this titans reign<br \/>\n\u00a0 Though fates may split his heart and tear his soul<br \/>\n\u00a0 An honest man will know he&#8217;s always whole<br \/>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n<p> Author notes<br \/>\nThe poem originally finished with the following unrhymed &#8220;couplet&#8221;, the whole<br \/>\nis a style I have borrowed from a friend no longer on AP.<\/p>\n<p>Though fates may split your heart and tear your soul<br \/>\nAn honest man can start his life again<\/p>\n<p>Either way it&#8217;s blank verse innit? [Posts%20by%20cricketjeff%203_files\/<br \/>\nhappy.gif]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Resurrection by cricketjeff on August 25, 2008.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved I saw the flash and heard the mighty roar The oak was split and branches fell aside The blackened trunk raised fingers to the world And life went on exactly as before The winter came and winds tore at the oak Yet [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":9738,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-3168","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3168","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=3168"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3168\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8340,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3168\/revisions\/8340"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9738"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}