{"id":3679,"date":"2023-11-26T20:27:31","date_gmt":"2023-11-26T20:27:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=3679"},"modified":"2023-11-28T23:06:35","modified_gmt":"2023-11-28T23:06:35","slug":"the-promises","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/the-poems\/the-promises\/","title":{"rendered":"The promises"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> The promises<br \/>\nby cricketjeff on March 10, 2009.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved<br \/>\nOn half remembered days of Summer sun<br \/>\nWhen tiny skirts put lovely legs on show<br \/>\nThere&#8217;s more than just a hint of extra fun<br \/>\nBut we won&#8217;t pry in things we needn&#8217;t know<\/p>\n<p>There seems to be a promise in the air<br \/>\nBefore the warmth of spring is on the way<br \/>\nBut life has started stirring everywhere<br \/>\nAnd pairs of tiny birds are out for play<\/p>\n<p>Yet still my heart is grey and overcast<br \/>\nThe future isn&#8217;t close enough to me<br \/>\nFor now I&#8217;ll sit and wallow in the past<br \/>\nUntil those lovely legs are here to see<\/p>\n<p>But life can&#8217;t be as bleak as sometimes seems<br \/>\nOne-day I&#8217;ll meet the lady of my dreams<\/p>\n<p> Author notes<br \/>\nI don&#8217;t like the couplet, which was<\/p>\n<p>And what of you the lady of my dreams<br \/>\nWill you appear to satisfy my schemes?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The promises by cricketjeff on March 10, 2009.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved On half remembered days of Summer sun When tiny skirts put lovely legs on show There&#8217;s more than just a hint of extra fun But we won&#8217;t pry in things we needn&#8217;t know There seems to be a promise in the [&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-3679","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3679","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=3679"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3679\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7831,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3679\/revisions\/7831"}],"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=3679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}