{"id":3384,"date":"2023-11-26T20:27:36","date_gmt":"2023-11-26T20:27:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=3384"},"modified":"2023-11-28T22:43:48","modified_gmt":"2023-11-28T22:43:48","slug":"looking-both-ways","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/l-poems\/looking-both-ways\/","title":{"rendered":"Looking both ways"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Looking both ways<br \/>\nby cricketjeff on November 13, 2008.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved<br \/>\nBeside yourself to see what lies beside<br \/>\nGo down the road that goes where you would go<br \/>\nDecide what you are trying to decide<br \/>\nNo more important fact for you to know<br \/>\nInside the truth that you have found inside<br \/>\nShow all of us that you can make a show<br \/>\nI cannot see inside your searching eye<br \/>\nWhy can&#8217;t I seem to find the answer why<\/p>\n<p>Do all the deeds you thought you could not do<br \/>\nFind all the love you thought you could not find<br \/>\nYou hid the past that made you into you<br \/>\nBehind the heavy load you left behind<br \/>\nNew life with me was all you thought you knew<br \/>\nMind numbing pain was taken from your mind<br \/>\nCry loud to warn me not to make you cry<br \/>\nTry hard to see that I can only try<\/p>\n<p> Author notes<br \/>\nA Shadow Ottava Rima<br \/>\nEight ten syllable lines (eleven syllables if you use a feminine rhyme) rhymed<br \/>\nabababcc, the Shadow element borrowed from Amera&#8217;s shadow sonnets is the use of<br \/>\nhomophones at each end of each line.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Looking both ways by cricketjeff on November 13, 2008.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved Beside yourself to see what lies beside Go down the road that goes where you would go Decide what you are trying to decide No more important fact for you to know Inside the truth that you have found inside [&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-3384","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3384","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=3384"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3384\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8124,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3384\/revisions\/8124"}],"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=3384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}