{"id":3183,"date":"2023-11-26T20:27:53","date_gmt":"2023-11-26T20:27:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=3183"},"modified":"2023-11-28T23:04:45","modified_gmt":"2023-11-28T23:04:45","slug":"the-chief-curse-of-man","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/the-poems\/the-chief-curse-of-man\/","title":{"rendered":"The chief curse of man"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> The chief curse of man<br \/>\nby cricketjeff on August 30, 2008.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved<br \/>\nAlthough the love of money is deplored<br \/>\nAnd simple greed can cause tremendous strain<br \/>\nThe worst of crimes are not about reward<br \/>\nFew wars are fought for monetary gain<br \/>\nThe evils that the worst of men have stored<br \/>\nAre often aimed at causing simple pain<br \/>\nThey claim these are the actions of the heart<br \/>\nSuch idealists will tear the world apart<\/p>\n<p>Religions and philosophies are fine<br \/>\nIf those who followed each would understand<br \/>\nThe words of men will often undermine<br \/>\nThe benefits they think that they have planned<br \/>\nIf you believe that truth&#8217;s as you define<br \/>\nThe world will surely suffer at your hand<br \/>\nNo man can know the best for all the World<br \/>\nIdealists should keep their banners furled<\/p>\n<p>Do not believe all that you&#8217;re taught in school<br \/>\nResponsibility still rests with you<br \/>\nFor Communist or Nazi party rule<br \/>\nGood men have thrown away the truths they knew<br \/>\nThey thought it best to latch on to a fool<br \/>\nThe same applies to most religions too<br \/>\nBefore you stand to fight for all that&#8217;s &#8220;right&#8221;<br \/>\nRemember to keep sanity in sight<\/p>\n<p> Author notes<br \/>\n3 Stanza Ottava Rima inspired by<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It is not materialism that is the chief curse of the world, as pastors teach,<br \/>\nbut idealism. Men get into trouble by taking their visions and hallucinations<br \/>\ntoo seriously.&#8221;<br \/>\nH. L. Mencken<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The chief curse of man by cricketjeff on August 30, 2008.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved Although the love of money is deplored And simple greed can cause tremendous strain The worst of crimes are not about reward Few wars are fought for monetary gain The evils that the worst of men have stored [&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-3183","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3183","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=3183"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3183\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8324,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3183\/revisions\/8324"}],"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=3183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}