{"id":3269,"date":"2023-11-26T20:27:52","date_gmt":"2023-11-26T20:27:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=3269"},"modified":"2023-11-28T22:47:40","modified_gmt":"2023-11-28T22:47:40","slug":"not-with-a-bang-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/n-poems\/not-with-a-bang-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Not with a bang"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Not with a bang<br \/>\nby cricketjeff on September 25, 2008.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved<br \/>\nHis saddened eyes now watched her slow decline<br \/>\nFrom haughty Princess to a wizened shell<br \/>\nShe once had stood for all that&#8217;s rich and fine<br \/>\nBut now she sat within a living Hell<\/p>\n<p>When first they met she graced the gossip page<br \/>\nMore beautiful than any other star<br \/>\nMore famous for her smile than screen or stage<br \/>\nNow empty eyes don&#8217;t get her very far<\/p>\n<p>The drink and drugs will always take their toll<br \/>\nAnd she had had more than her share of each<br \/>\nShe sits to play her latest greatest roll<br \/>\nA tragedy where death is not in reach<\/p>\n<p>The brightest light that ever graced the sky<br \/>\nHe knows within his heart she wants to die<\/p>\n<p> Author notes<br \/>\nI saw a picture in the paper which prompted this, but it wasn&#8217;t my paper I<br \/>\ncannot now find it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not with a bang by cricketjeff on September 25, 2008.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved His saddened eyes now watched her slow decline From haughty Princess to a wizened shell She once had stood for all that&#8217;s rich and fine But now she sat within a living Hell When first they met she graced [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":9730,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-3269","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3269","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=3269"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3269\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8239,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3269\/revisions\/8239"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}