{"id":3336,"date":"2023-11-26T20:27:36","date_gmt":"2023-11-26T20:27:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=3336"},"modified":"2023-11-28T22:43:48","modified_gmt":"2023-11-28T22:43:48","slug":"losing","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/l-poems\/losing\/","title":{"rendered":"Losing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Losing<br \/>\nby cricketjeff on October 23, 2008.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved<br \/>\nI&#8217;ve tried to walk one thousand miles<br \/>\nIn just one pair of shoes<br \/>\nI&#8217;ve kicked the world and borne its wiles<br \/>\nAnd still had breath to choose<br \/>\nI&#8217;ve turned my head\u00a0 away from smiles<br \/>\nBefore the smilers lose<br \/>\nThere isn&#8217;t any way to win the game<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve climbed the hill on hands and knees<br \/>\nWithout the strength to stand<br \/>\nI&#8217;ve found the will to answer pleas<br \/>\nMade with an outstretched hand<br \/>\nAnd tried to fight against the squeeze<br \/>\nThat other men have planned<br \/>\nThere isn&#8217;t anyone to take the blame<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve held the shield above my head<br \/>\nTo fend off many blows<br \/>\nI&#8217;ve tried to make bright gold from lead<br \/>\nAnd flames from dying glows<br \/>\nBut all I&#8217;ve done is stand instead<br \/>\nOf anyone who knows<br \/>\nAnd now its time to hang my head in shame<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Losing by cricketjeff on October 23, 2008.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved I&#8217;ve tried to walk one thousand miles In just one pair of shoes I&#8217;ve kicked the world and borne its wiles And still had breath to choose I&#8217;ve turned my head\u00a0 away from smiles Before the smilers lose There isn&#8217;t any way [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":9726,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-3336","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3336","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=3336"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3336\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8172,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3336\/revisions\/8172"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}