{"id":3667,"date":"2023-11-26T20:27:31","date_gmt":"2023-11-26T20:27:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=3667"},"modified":"2023-11-28T22:00:02","modified_gmt":"2023-11-28T22:00:02","slug":"its-only-a-game","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/i-poems\/its-only-a-game\/","title":{"rendered":"It\\&#8217;s only a game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> It&#8217;s only a game<br \/>\nby cricketjeff on March 6, 2009.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved<br \/>\nIt may escape your notice but it&#8217;s just a stupid game<br \/>\n\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 And there are other levels after this<br \/>\nAnd though they seem quite different they are really all the same<br \/>\n\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 So does it really matter if you miss<br \/>\nIn time you find the answers to the puzzles that you&#8217;ve met<br \/>\nThere isn&#8217;t any limit so you can&#8217;t collect the set<\/p>\n<p>You started off for pleasure but too soon you found the drug<br \/>\n\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 And now you play because you have to play<br \/>\nWhen problems seem to block you don&#8217;t meet them with a shrug<br \/>\n\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 You worry that you&#8217;ll never find the way<br \/>\nBut all of it is easy if you let yourself have fun<br \/>\nStep back and read the scoreboard and you&#8217;ll see that you have won<\/p>\n<p>Each day is just another but it&#8217;s not an endless mill<br \/>\n\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 There&#8217;s pleasure to be had as you pass by<br \/>\nWhen you find it&#8217;s an adventure you can feast upon the thrill<br \/>\n\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 And then you find each day is worth the try<br \/>\nYou know that life&#8217;s a game but it&#8217;s the game that we are in<br \/>\nAnd while its all there is to do you better play to win!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s only a game by cricketjeff on March 6, 2009.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved It may escape your notice but it&#8217;s just a stupid game \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 And there are other levels after this And though they seem quite different they are really all the same \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 So does it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":9718,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-3667","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3667","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=3667"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3667\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7841,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3667\/revisions\/7841"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}