{"id":3646,"date":"2023-11-26T20:27:32","date_gmt":"2023-11-26T20:27:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=3646"},"modified":"2023-11-28T23:09:04","modified_gmt":"2023-11-28T23:09:04","slug":"the-stick-in-the-mud","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/the-poems\/the-stick-in-the-mud\/","title":{"rendered":"The stick in the mud"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> The stick in the mud<br \/>\nby cricketjeff on February 26, 2009.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved<br \/>\nIn long and lazy meter I repose;<br \/>\nContented in the comfort of the rhyme.<br \/>\nThough I may find modernity in time<br \/>\nBefore my ageing bones can decompose.<br \/>\nI have no greater wisdom to dispose &#8211;<br \/>\nI cannot push my thoughts beyond sublime.<br \/>\nSo I must strive to make my verses chime<br \/>\nWith all the dreams a lover may propose.<\/p>\n<p>Some say iambs can form a rigid cage,<br \/>\nConfining and conventional in tone,<br \/>\nThey are a form with which I can engage<br \/>\nAnd maybe even make them seem my own.<br \/>\nThe Petrach never rhymed his final pair &#8211;<br \/>\nPerhaps I&#8217;m not incorrigibly square.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The stick in the mud by cricketjeff on February 26, 2009.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved In long and lazy meter I repose; Contented in the comfort of the rhyme. Though I may find modernity in time Before my ageing bones can decompose. I have no greater wisdom to dispose &#8211; I cannot push [&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-3646","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3646","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=3646"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3646\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7862,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3646\/revisions\/7862"}],"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=3646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}