{"id":3437,"date":"2023-11-26T20:27:35","date_gmt":"2023-11-26T20:27:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=3437"},"modified":"2023-11-28T23:04:46","modified_gmt":"2023-11-28T23:04:46","slug":"the-hustler","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/the-poems\/the-hustler\/","title":{"rendered":"The Hustler"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> The Hustler<br \/>\nby cricketjeff on December 4, 2008.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved<br \/>\n[Posts%20by%20cricketjeff%203_files\/833.jpg]<\/p>\n<p>The slaughter of the innocents complete<br \/>\nShe contemplates the scene of bloody gore<br \/>\nHe should have known that she would win the war<br \/>\nAnd now he has to worship at her feet<\/p>\n<p>Her openings were classical and neat<br \/>\nShe laid each trap with patience and with skill<br \/>\nHe thought he saw them all yet stumbled still<br \/>\nAnd now he has to worship at her feet<\/p>\n<p>So confident that she could not be beat<br \/>\nShe raised the stakes until that fateful day<br \/>\nHe smiled and turned the game to run his way<br \/>\nAnd now she has to worship at his feet<\/p>\n<p>The slaughter of the innocents complete<br \/>\nShe&#8217;s glad that now she worships at his feet<\/p>\n<p> Author notes<br \/>\nChess has always been about power!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Hustler by cricketjeff on December 4, 2008.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved [Posts%20by%20cricketjeff%203_files\/833.jpg] The slaughter of the innocents complete She contemplates the scene of bloody gore He should have known that she would win the war And now he has to worship at her feet Her openings were classical and neat She laid [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":9742,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-3437","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3437","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=3437"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3437\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8072,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3437\/revisions\/8072"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}