{"id":3571,"date":"2023-11-26T20:27:33","date_gmt":"2023-11-26T20:27:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=3571"},"modified":"2023-11-28T23:09:53","modified_gmt":"2023-11-28T23:09:53","slug":"two-views","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/t-poems\/two-views\/","title":{"rendered":"Two views"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Two views<br \/>\nby cricketjeff on January 31, 2009.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved<br \/>\nA river of rubies and pearls ripples towards the horizon<br \/>\nshimmering in the darkness past islands of amber<\/p>\n<p>The traffic snarls angrily on a cold dark night<br \/>\ndrivers cursing at coned off lanes<\/p>\n<p>A ghostly grin flashes through dark curtains<br \/>\nthat toss across the skylights of the world<\/p>\n<p>A harsh wind throws clouds across the crescent moon<br \/>\nhiding the night sky under threats of snow<\/p>\n<p>Tall soldiers stand guard at the banks<br \/>\ngaunt against the flickering fires of the fairy folk<\/p>\n<p>Bare trees stand as harsh reminders of winter<br \/>\nagainst the lights of farms and villages<\/p>\n<p>And both in dreams and traffic jams<br \/>\nI want a cup of tea.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two views by cricketjeff on January 31, 2009.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved A river of rubies and pearls ripples towards the horizon shimmering in the darkness past islands of amber The traffic snarls angrily on a cold dark night drivers cursing at coned off lanes A ghostly grin flashes through dark curtains that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":9748,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-3571","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3571","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=3571"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3571\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7938,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3571\/revisions\/7938"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}