{"id":3216,"date":"2023-11-26T20:27:52","date_gmt":"2023-11-26T20:27:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=3216"},"modified":"2023-11-28T23:09:04","modified_gmt":"2023-11-28T23:09:04","slug":"the-treat","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/the-poems\/the-treat\/","title":{"rendered":"The treat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> The treat<br \/>\nby cricketjeff on September 10, 2008.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved<br \/>\nTongue-tied he watches<br \/>\nas she plays carelessly<\/p>\n<p>her lithe, loose limbed running<br \/>\nseems designed to tease him<br \/>\nbut all he can do<br \/>\nis smile and watch<\/p>\n<p>hand over hand on monkey bars<br \/>\nthen foot in front of foot<br \/>\non the rope bridge<\/p>\n<p>the other children watch<br \/>\nas she leads the way<br \/>\nconfidence personified<br \/>\nsure footed she dances<br \/>\nover the stepping stones<\/p>\n<p>He sits and smiles<br \/>\nsadly proud self justified<br \/>\nin her achievements<\/p>\n<p>she looks up and smiles<br \/>\nit&#8217;s time to go home<br \/>\nand the best treat of the day<br \/>\nriding home<br \/>\non Dad&#8217;s wheelchair.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The treat by cricketjeff on September 10, 2008.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved Tongue-tied he watches as she plays carelessly her lithe, loose limbed running seems designed to tease him but all he can do is smile and watch hand over hand on monkey bars then foot in front of foot on the rope [&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-3216","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3216","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=3216"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3216\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8292,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3216\/revisions\/8292"}],"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=3216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}