{"id":3474,"date":"2023-11-26T20:27:34","date_gmt":"2023-11-26T20:27:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=3474"},"modified":"2023-11-28T23:09:04","modified_gmt":"2023-11-28T23:09:04","slug":"the-test","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/the-poems\/the-test\/","title":{"rendered":"The test"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> The test<br \/>\nby cricketjeff on December 28, 2008.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved<br \/>\nThroughout the years since man began his reign<br \/>\nIn all the halls where he has pitched his throne<br \/>\nHis mother has been there to bear the pain<br \/>\nI fear he&#8217;ll never hear her plaintive moan<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s undone all of nature&#8217;s careful past<br \/>\nHer beauty ripped apart by venal lust<br \/>\nEach generation must outdo the last<br \/>\nThey fail to see that all will come to dust<\/p>\n<p>We have to learn to grow and not destroy<br \/>\nPreserve the things that we cannot replace<br \/>\nWhen we can understand what we employ<br \/>\nWe&#8217;ll earn the right to cast aside disgrace<\/p>\n<p>For Man to show he really has some worth<br \/>\nHe must undo the rape of Mother Earth<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The test by cricketjeff on December 28, 2008.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved Throughout the years since man began his reign In all the halls where he has pitched his throne His mother has been there to bear the pain I fear he&#8217;ll never hear her plaintive moan He&#8217;s undone all of nature&#8217;s careful [&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-3474","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3474","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=3474"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3474\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8034,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3474\/revisions\/8034"}],"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=3474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}