{"id":3272,"date":"2023-11-26T20:27:52","date_gmt":"2023-11-26T20:27:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=3272"},"modified":"2023-11-28T22:56:38","modified_gmt":"2023-11-28T22:56:38","slug":"reflecting-on-life","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/r-poems\/reflecting-on-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Reflecting on life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Reflecting on life<br \/>\nby cricketjeff on September 25, 2008.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved<br \/>\nFor fifty years this son of long dead stars<br \/>\nHas chased his dreams and dreamt his chase was won<br \/>\nHe&#8217;s battled hard and bears his share of scars<br \/>\nBut knows that overall his life is fun<\/p>\n<p>Ten billion years his atoms walked alone<br \/>\nOr shared another body who can know<br \/>\nTogether for the briefest span they&#8217;ve grown<br \/>\nThe body known as Jeff is all their show<\/p>\n<p>It doesn&#8217;t really matter what I think<br \/>\nOr what I choose to write for you to read<br \/>\nBefore the Earth is poised upon the brink<br \/>\nOf death upon the altar of man&#8217;s greed<\/p>\n<p>Have I another fifty years to go?<br \/>\nI wonder if that&#8217;s time enough to know.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reflecting on life by cricketjeff on September 25, 2008.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved For fifty years this son of long dead stars Has chased his dreams and dreamt his chase was won He&#8217;s battled hard and bears his share of scars But knows that overall his life is fun Ten billion years his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":9738,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-3272","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3272","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=3272"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3272\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8235,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3272\/revisions\/8235"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9738"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}