{"id":3438,"date":"2023-11-26T20:27:35","date_gmt":"2023-11-26T20:27:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=3438"},"modified":"2023-11-28T23:04:46","modified_gmt":"2023-11-28T23:04:46","slug":"the-heart-of-clare","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/the-poems\/the-heart-of-clare\/","title":{"rendered":"The heart of Clare"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> The heart of Clare<br \/>\nby cricketjeff on December 4, 2008.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved<br \/>\nShe has a smile that every man would share<br \/>\nWith just a hint that he had best beware<br \/>\nSo many men decided they would dare<br \/>\nTo take a trip no matter what the fare<\/p>\n<p>Her eyes enticed them in from everywhere<br \/>\nAlthough too few knew what they should prepare<br \/>\nShe trapped the poor unwary in her lair<br \/>\nAnd took the most from them that they could bear<\/p>\n<p>I too considered her a prize so rare<br \/>\nBut thought perhaps I&#8217;d need a little flair<br \/>\nI went about the task with lots of care<br \/>\nUntil she begged that we become a pair<\/p>\n<p>And now the jealous fools can only stare<br \/>\nFor I&#8217;m the man who won the heart of Clare<\/p>\n<p> Author notes<br \/>\nA classical sonnet in form and meter, with two stanzas setting up the tale a<br \/>\nvolta and a resolution in a closing couplet, but monorhymed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The heart of Clare by cricketjeff on December 4, 2008.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved She has a smile that every man would share With just a hint that he had best beware So many men decided they would dare To take a trip no matter what the fare Her eyes enticed them in [&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-3438","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3438","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=3438"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3438\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8070,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3438\/revisions\/8070"}],"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=3438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}