{"id":3365,"date":"2023-11-26T20:27:36","date_gmt":"2023-11-26T20:27:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=3365"},"modified":"2023-11-27T22:42:57","modified_gmt":"2023-11-27T22:42:57","slug":"another-night-another-morning","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/a-poems\/another-night-another-morning\/","title":{"rendered":"Another night, another morning."},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Another night, another morning.<br \/>\nby cricketjeff on November 6, 2008.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved<br \/>\nHome<br \/>\nbefore the first trace of dawn<br \/>\nhe drags himself down the path<br \/>\nfumbles with the lock<br \/>\nthen falls<br \/>\nflat on the mat<br \/>\nthat once welcomed<\/p>\n<p>Cursing<br \/>\nhe climbs the stairs<br \/>\nthen<br \/>\ncursing again<br \/>\nat forgetting to take off his shoes<br \/>\nhe falls across an unmade bed<\/p>\n<p>Snoring<br \/>\nbefore he is horizontal<\/p>\n<p>The sun streams through blinds<br \/>\nthat are no better preserved<br \/>\nthan he<\/p>\n<p>finally a beam<br \/>\nfinds his face<br \/>\nhe wakes<br \/>\ndry mouthed and split headed<br \/>\ncursing<br \/>\nat the injustice of life<br \/>\nthe bar food that must be to blame<br \/>\nand above all<br \/>\nat the sun<br \/>\nand the tattered blinds<br \/>\nfor waking him.<\/p>\n<p> Author notes<br \/>\nprompt: Tattered blinds<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another night, another morning. by cricketjeff on November 6, 2008.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved Home before the first trace of dawn he drags himself down the path fumbles with the lock then falls flat on the mat that once welcomed Cursing he climbs the stairs then cursing again at forgetting to take off [&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-3365","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3365","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=3365"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3365\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8143,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3365\/revisions\/8143"}],"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=3365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}