{"id":3344,"date":"2023-11-26T20:27:36","date_gmt":"2023-11-26T20:27:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=3344"},"modified":"2023-11-27T22:45:12","modified_gmt":"2023-11-27T22:45:12","slug":"bonfire-of-insanities","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/b-poems\/bonfire-of-insanities\/","title":{"rendered":"Bonfire of insanities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Bonfire of insanities<br \/>\nby cricketjeff on October 27, 2008.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved<br \/>\nThere are rockets shells and bangers all around<br \/>\nThere are stars of green and mauve and orange too<br \/>\nThere is nowhere that&#8217;s not filled with dreadful sound<br \/>\nThere are fogs and smokes of every haunted hue<\/p>\n<p>With a whoosh and with a wail of urgent action<br \/>\nWith explosions overhead and down below<br \/>\nWith my head about to burst into a fraction<br \/>\nWith the moon ashamed to fight against the glow<\/p>\n<p>Every house it seems has spawned a little army<br \/>\nEvery Hindu in the town is off to war<br \/>\nEvery year Divali drives the people barmy<br \/>\nEvery day they seem to spend a little more<\/p>\n<p>When it&#8217;s time that Guy Fawkes&#8217; effigy needs burning<br \/>\nWhen it&#8217;s bonfire night the ancient English way<br \/>\nWhen we&#8217;ve finish letting shops do all this earning<br \/>\nWhen we&#8217;ve finally completed all this play<\/p>\n<p>Then each night will seem so tranquil and so normal<br \/>\nThen each evening will be safe to take a walk<br \/>\nThen the world can once again be flat and formal<br \/>\nThen at last it will be possible to talk!!!<br \/>\n Author notes<br \/>\nIt seems like I live in a war zone at this time of year!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bonfire of insanities by cricketjeff on October 27, 2008.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved There are rockets shells and bangers all around There are stars of green and mauve and orange too There is nowhere that&#8217;s not filled with dreadful sound There are fogs and smokes of every haunted hue With a whoosh and [&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-3344","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3344","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=3344"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3344\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8163,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3344\/revisions\/8163"}],"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=3344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}