{"id":3174,"date":"2023-11-26T20:27:53","date_gmt":"2023-11-26T20:27:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=3174"},"modified":"2023-11-28T23:09:03","modified_gmt":"2023-11-28T23:09:03","slug":"the-queens-dinner-guest","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/the-poems\/the-queens-dinner-guest\/","title":{"rendered":"The Queen\\&#8217;s dinner guest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> The Queen&#8217;s dinner guest<br \/>\nby cricketjeff on August 26, 2008.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved<br \/>\n[Posts%20by%20cricketjeff%203_files\/109.html]<\/p>\n<p>So sad the eyes that stare back at my own<br \/>\nAnd yet your flesh was sweet on which to dine<br \/>\nYou know that life is only yours on loan<br \/>\nAll mortal fools should know that they are mine<br \/>\n\u00a0 \u00a0 I like to keep\u00a0 the heads so I can see<br \/>\n\u00a0 \u00a0 The final look of fear on those I killed<br \/>\n\u00a0 \u00a0 The terrors of the men that I set free<br \/>\n\u00a0 \u00a0 The memory of pain as life was spilled<br \/>\nThis helpless wretch appeared to pledge his love<br \/>\nHe thought that I would look on such a worm<br \/>\nI strung his feet from sturdy beams above<br \/>\nAnd sliced his flesh to watch the dullard squirm<br \/>\n\u00a0 \u00a0 I&#8217;ll take his head to bed to feed my dreams<br \/>\n\u00a0 \u00a0 They&#8217;ll fill with all the pleasure of his screams<br \/>\n Author notes<br \/>\nYes, a little OTT for me I fancy [Posts%20by%20cricketjeff%203_files\/happy.gif]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Queen&#8217;s dinner guest by cricketjeff on August 26, 2008.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved [Posts%20by%20cricketjeff%203_files\/109.html] So sad the eyes that stare back at my own And yet your flesh was sweet on which to dine You know that life is only yours on loan All mortal fools should know that they are mine [&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-3174","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3174","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=3174"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3174\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8335,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3174\/revisions\/8335"}],"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=3174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}