{"id":3295,"date":"2023-11-26T20:27:51","date_gmt":"2023-11-26T20:27:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=3295"},"modified":"2023-11-27T22:45:12","modified_gmt":"2023-11-27T22:45:12","slug":"building-the-best","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/b-poems\/building-the-best\/","title":{"rendered":"Building the best"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Building the best<br \/>\nby cricketjeff on October 3, 2008.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved<br \/>\nI wish that all the world would give up fighting<br \/>\nAll violence is such a foolish notion<br \/>\nIt seems to stem from negative emotion<br \/>\nMuch better used as stimulus for writing<br \/>\nAlthough a verse may not be as exciting<br \/>\nSometimes it sooths more surely than a lotion<br \/>\nAnd often causes feelings of devotion<br \/>\nThat doesn&#8217;t leave a flash point for igniting<\/p>\n<p>The poets of the past could calm a nation<br \/>\nWith songs that stirred to loving not to hating<br \/>\nYou cannot build the world with raw damnation<br \/>\nThe negatives get too much overstating<br \/>\nJust give the best you see some strong inflation<br \/>\nAnd every one you meet will start elating<\/p>\n<p> Author notes<br \/>\nHendacsyllabic feminine rhymed Italian sonnet<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Building the best by cricketjeff on October 3, 2008.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved I wish that all the world would give up fighting All violence is such a foolish notion It seems to stem from negative emotion Much better used as stimulus for writing Although a verse may not be as exciting Sometimes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":9694,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-3295","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3295","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=3295"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3295\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8214,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3295\/revisions\/8214"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}