{"id":3470,"date":"2023-11-26T20:27:34","date_gmt":"2023-11-26T20:27:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=3470"},"modified":"2023-11-28T23:04:47","modified_gmt":"2023-11-28T23:04:47","slug":"the-paper-bell","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/the-poems\/the-paper-bell\/","title":{"rendered":"The paper bell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> The paper bell<br \/>\nby cricketjeff on December 26, 2008.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved<br \/>\nThe season starts when it appears<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s there before our Christmas tree<br \/>\nTradition built through all my years<br \/>\nThe paper bell as old as me<br \/>\n\u00a0 \u00a0 No cards or greetings on display<br \/>\n\u00a0 \u00a0 Until that bell is there to see<br \/>\n\u00a0 \u00a0 Above the stairs where elves can play<br \/>\n\u00a0 \u00a0 The paper bell as old as me\u00a0 \u00a0<br \/>\nA star and snowflakes on the door<br \/>\nThe holly berries grew for free<br \/>\nNo decorations matter more<br \/>\nThe paper bell as old as me<br \/>\n\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 The season starts when it appears<br \/>\n\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 The paper bell as old as me<\/p>\n<p> Author notes<br \/>\nA family tradition, when my parents first bought their house they were given<br \/>\nChristmas decorations by various family members, including a large paper bell.<br \/>\nIt had it&#8217;s own place above the stairs and was the first decoration hung each<br \/>\nyear. One year my Mother decided it was getting too old, but my daughter (about<br \/>\n5 at the time) was horrified and rescued it. Now it is the first decoration<br \/>\nhung in our house.<\/p>\n<p>Also using ten words for the bank.<\/p>\n<p>season, Christmas tree, tradition, cards, greetings, elves, star, snowflakes,<br \/>\nholly, decorations<\/p>\n<p>The form is a Kyrielle sonnet, iambic tetrameter rhymed AbaB cbcB dbdB AB<br \/>\ncapital letters indicating repeated lines.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The paper bell by cricketjeff on December 26, 2008.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved The season starts when it appears It&#8217;s there before our Christmas tree Tradition built through all my years The paper bell as old as me \u00a0 \u00a0 No cards or greetings on display \u00a0 \u00a0 Until that bell is there [&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-3470","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3470","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=3470"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3470\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8038,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3470\/revisions\/8038"}],"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=3470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}