{"id":3649,"date":"2023-11-26T20:27:32","date_gmt":"2023-11-26T20:27:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=3649"},"modified":"2023-11-28T22:56:38","modified_gmt":"2023-11-28T22:56:38","slug":"reasons","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/r-poems\/reasons\/","title":{"rendered":"Reasons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Reasons<br \/>\nby cricketjeff on February 27, 2009.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved<br \/>\nWhy would you write if you were not in love<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s love that drives a poet to his pen<br \/>\nWhen inspiration strikes him from above<br \/>\nA poet is the luckiest of men<\/p>\n<p>Or maybe it is just a love of words<br \/>\nThat causes you to suffer in this way<br \/>\nYour writing&#8217;s just the twittering of birds<br \/>\nYou love the sound but don&#8217;t know what to say<\/p>\n<p>Philosophers may also try to write<br \/>\nFor they believe they know the way to think<br \/>\nBut what they write can be a dreadful sight<br \/>\nAnd drive their readers off to find a drink<\/p>\n<p>For me there isn&#8217;t any subtle plan<br \/>\nI only write because I found I can!<br \/>\n Author notes<br \/>\nI am still working on the couplet, any suggestions gratefully received<br \/>\n[Posts%20by%20cricketjeff%203_files\/happy.gif]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reasons by cricketjeff on February 27, 2009.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved Why would you write if you were not in love It&#8217;s love that drives a poet to his pen When inspiration strikes him from above A poet is the luckiest of men Or maybe it is just a love of words That [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":9738,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-3649","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3649","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=3649"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3649\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7858,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3649\/revisions\/7858"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9738"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}