{"id":3510,"date":"2023-11-26T20:27:34","date_gmt":"2023-11-26T20:27:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=3510"},"modified":"2023-11-27T22:40:39","modified_gmt":"2023-11-27T22:40:39","slug":"all-over-the-place","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/a-poems\/all-over-the-place\/","title":{"rendered":"All over the place"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> All over the place<br \/>\nby cricketjeff on January 8, 2009.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved<br \/>\nFor every grain of sand on Earth a star is in the sky<br \/>\nAnd life is just a trick of chemistry<br \/>\nThe elements that give us worth all in good supply<br \/>\nThat we are not alone is clear to see<br \/>\nFor chance will always find a way when time is on its side<br \/>\nAnd numbers build a winning case whose force can&#8217;t be denied<\/p>\n<p>We find that life has filled each niche, both broiled and cold as ice<br \/>\nIn desert sands or seas that crust with salt<br \/>\nMicrobes are found deep in the rocks and whales may teem with lice<br \/>\nAnd Darwinism really is at fault<br \/>\nIf all you need to reproduce is gathered in one place<br \/>\nIn time self reproduction&#8217;s really bound to win the race<\/p>\n<p>Four billion years ago on Earth when DNA was born<br \/>\nThe future of our planet had to change<br \/>\nAnd planets all across the voids are sure to heave and spawn<br \/>\nProducing life that we&#8217;d find very strange<br \/>\nIt may be rare or all around but there must be a lot<br \/>\nAnd I am sure that somewhere else a poet&#8217;s on the spot!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All over the place by cricketjeff on January 8, 2009.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved For every grain of sand on Earth a star is in the sky And life is just a trick of chemistry The elements that give us worth all in good supply That we are not alone is clear to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":9692,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-3510","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3510","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=3510"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3510\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7999,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3510\/revisions\/7999"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}