{"id":3637,"date":"2023-11-26T20:27:32","date_gmt":"2023-11-26T20:27:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=3637"},"modified":"2023-11-28T22:47:39","modified_gmt":"2023-11-28T22:47:39","slug":"not-her-day","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/n-poems\/not-her-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Not her day!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Not her day!<br \/>\nby cricketjeff on February 22, 2009.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved<br \/>\nA brand new suit with broad green stripes<br \/>\nAn interview today<br \/>\nHer tiny pack of baby wipes<br \/>\nWon&#8217;t help in any way<\/p>\n<p>Up with the lark and wide awake<br \/>\nShe caught the early train<br \/>\nBut then she made her first mistake<br \/>\nShe won&#8217;t do that again<\/p>\n<p>An hour to kill, she found the park<br \/>\nA bench beneath a tree<br \/>\nIf she had been there after dark<br \/>\nI&#8217;d understand you see<\/p>\n<p>But difficult it really ain&#8217;t<br \/>\nTo read a big red sign<br \/>\nIn plain white text it read &#8220;Wet Paint&#8221;<br \/>\nI know, the sign was mine.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d painted every bench that day<br \/>\nA lovely shade of green<br \/>\nAnd labelled them in such a way<br \/>\nThey could be clearly seen<\/p>\n<p>Her interviewer may not ask<br \/>\nIf she can see or read<br \/>\nBut if she&#8217;s up to any task<br \/>\nIt must be odd indeed!!!<\/p>\n<p> Author notes<br \/>\nThe prompt was &#8220;Wet Paint&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not her day! by cricketjeff on February 22, 2009.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved A brand new suit with broad green stripes An interview today Her tiny pack of baby wipes Won&#8217;t help in any way Up with the lark and wide awake She caught the early train But then she made her first [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":9730,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-3637","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3637","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=3637"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3637\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7871,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3637\/revisions\/7871"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}