{"id":3253,"date":"2023-11-26T20:27:52","date_gmt":"2023-11-26T20:27:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=3253"},"modified":"2023-11-28T22:45:35","modified_gmt":"2023-11-28T22:45:35","slug":"my-dragon","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/m-poems\/my-dragon\/","title":{"rendered":"My Dragon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> My Dragon<br \/>\nby cricketjeff on September 19, 2008.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved<br \/>\nShe stirs<br \/>\nhissing her anger<br \/>\nspitting<br \/>\nat those who dare<br \/>\nto come too close<\/p>\n<p>Now<br \/>\nit is time<br \/>\ntime<br \/>\ntime rules her life<\/p>\n<p>when the time comes<br \/>\npowerful muscles<br \/>\npush her sleek<br \/>\nblack<br \/>\nflanks<br \/>\nonwards ever onwards<br \/>\nin a rush and roar<br \/>\nof beautiful anger<\/p>\n<p>She consumes her prey<br \/>\ndevours it<br \/>\nit is inconsequential<\/p>\n<p>all that matters<br \/>\nis the rush and the roar<\/p>\n<p>Amazed admirers<br \/>\nflock to the scene<br \/>\nbathe in her fury<br \/>\nand she&#8217;s gone<br \/>\na vision<br \/>\na dream<br \/>\na nightmare<\/p>\n<p>Too soon<\/p>\n<p>it is done<br \/>\nthe final mile consumed<br \/>\nand in clouds of disappointment<br \/>\nshe stands<br \/>\nso that I<br \/>\na supplicant<br \/>\ncan make a picture<br \/>\nof a giant<br \/>\nat rest.<\/p>\n<p> Author notes<br \/>\nFor those less well versed than others in the realms of Jefflaw the dragon is<br \/>\nmechanical and has a tendency to roam along paths made of iron. In other words<br \/>\nit is a railway locomotive.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My Dragon by cricketjeff on September 19, 2008.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved She stirs hissing her anger spitting at those who dare to come too close Now it is time time time rules her life when the time comes powerful muscles push her sleek black flanks onwards ever onwards in a rush and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":9728,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-3253","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3253","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=3253"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3253\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8255,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3253\/revisions\/8255"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}