{"id":3275,"date":"2023-11-26T20:27:52","date_gmt":"2023-11-26T20:27:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=3275"},"modified":"2023-11-27T22:40:39","modified_gmt":"2023-11-27T22:40:39","slug":"alperton-autumn","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/a-poems\/alperton-autumn\/","title":{"rendered":"Alperton Autumn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Alperton Autumn<br \/>\nby cricketjeff on September 26, 2008.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved<br \/>\nSeptember sun has chased the grey away<br \/>\nAnd lit the evening sky with golden fire<br \/>\nI sat beside a Church at lunch today<br \/>\nAnd watched a kestrel swooping past the spire<\/p>\n<p>The leaves on trees still hang in Summer&#8217;s green<br \/>\nBut ripened fruit now joins them on the boughs<br \/>\nThe dirty urban river looked serene<br \/>\nThough junkyard cars don&#8217;t look as cool as cows<\/p>\n<p>The roar of diesel engines filled the air<br \/>\nBut dulled by hedges almost didn&#8217;t count<br \/>\nYou find the joys of nature everywhere<br \/>\nThe only thing to change is the amount<\/p>\n<p>While Alperton is not a country town<br \/>\nIn golden sun it&#8217;s not just grey and brown<\/p>\n<p> Author notes<br \/>\nI&#8217;ve just started a new job in Hangar Lane not the most beautiful area squeezed<br \/>\nbetween Alperton and Ealing and home to a notorious &#8220;gyratory system&#8221;<br \/>\n(roundabout on steroids) but even here you find little green oases and a very<br \/>\nsad looking River Brent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alperton Autumn by cricketjeff on September 26, 2008.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved September sun has chased the grey away And lit the evening sky with golden fire I sat beside a Church at lunch today And watched a kestrel swooping past the spire The leaves on trees still hang in Summer&#8217;s green But [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":9692,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-3275","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3275","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=3275"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3275\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8233,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3275\/revisions\/8233"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}