{"id":3493,"date":"2023-11-26T20:27:34","date_gmt":"2023-11-26T20:27:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=3493"},"modified":"2023-11-28T22:00:01","modified_gmt":"2023-11-28T22:00:01","slug":"in-vino-veritas","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/i-poems\/in-vino-veritas\/","title":{"rendered":"In vino veritas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> In vino veritas<br \/>\nby cricketjeff on January 2, 2009.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved<br \/>\nIn vino veritas they say<br \/>\nThe old men grouped around the fire<br \/>\nThey drink and carry on their play<br \/>\nWhile we conspire<\/p>\n<p>To overhear them is to know<br \/>\nThat though there&#8217;s truth there&#8217;s lies as well<br \/>\nA man who drinks will put on show<br \/>\nWhat he won&#8217;t tell<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;ll brag about his fatal charm<br \/>\nWe see he means he has no friends<br \/>\nAnd boast about a strong right arm<br \/>\nEach drunk pretends<\/p>\n<p>And then without a moment&#8217;s thought<br \/>\nHe&#8217;ll let it a little truth slip by<br \/>\nA tiny grain that&#8217;s hardly caught<br \/>\nCould make you cry<\/p>\n<p>In vino veritas maybe<br \/>\nBut rarely for the others there<br \/>\nThe lies are all the drinkers see<br \/>\nAnd all they share<\/p>\n<p> Author notes<br \/>\nIn vino veritas &#8211; there is truth in wine<\/p>\n<p>Started but not finished in time for a contest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In vino veritas by cricketjeff on January 2, 2009.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved In vino veritas they say The old men grouped around the fire They drink and carry on their play While we conspire To overhear them is to know That though there&#8217;s truth there&#8217;s lies as well A man who drinks [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":9718,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-3493","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3493","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=3493"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3493\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8013,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3493\/revisions\/8013"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}