{"id":3498,"date":"2023-11-26T20:27:34","date_gmt":"2023-11-26T20:27:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=3498"},"modified":"2023-11-28T23:01:30","modified_gmt":"2023-11-28T23:01:30","slug":"the-arts","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/the-poems\/the-arts\/","title":{"rendered":"The arts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> The arts<br \/>\nby cricketjeff on January 4, 2009.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved<br \/>\nA picture fades as soon as it is dry<br \/>\nBut words endure for ever and a day<br \/>\nA painting may be easy on the eye<br \/>\nBut well wrought words can take your breath away<\/p>\n<p>An artist struggles hard to set the scene<br \/>\nA masterpiece can set a heart on fire<br \/>\nBut time will put an end to red and green<br \/>\nWhile words still hold the secrets of desire<\/p>\n<p>A poet needs to know that deep inside<br \/>\nThe best of man is captured by a word<br \/>\nFrom artist&#8217;s brush a secret thought may hide<br \/>\nBut poets capture even the absurd<\/p>\n<p>Da Vinci&#8217;s mind was deeper than the sea<br \/>\nToo bad he didn&#8217;t turn to poetry<\/p>\n<p> Author notes<br \/>\nOriginally written as a comment on a poem,_the_last_supper, by Mairi bheag and<br \/>\nreproduced here with her permission.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The arts by cricketjeff on January 4, 2009.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved A picture fades as soon as it is dry But words endure for ever and a day A painting may be easy on the eye But well wrought words can take your breath away An artist struggles hard to set the [&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-3498","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3498","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=3498"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3498\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8010,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3498\/revisions\/8010"}],"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=3498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}