{"id":3680,"date":"2023-11-26T20:27:31","date_gmt":"2023-11-26T20:27:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=3680"},"modified":"2023-11-28T22:06:26","modified_gmt":"2023-11-28T22:06:26","slug":"just-one-of-the-sights","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/j-poems\/just-one-of-the-sights\/","title":{"rendered":"Just one of the sights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Just one of the sights<br \/>\nby cricketjeff on March 10, 2009.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved<br \/>\nAlone<br \/>\non the bench outside the Baptist church<br \/>\nhe sits<br \/>\nfighting his demons<br \/>\nand talking to his gods.<\/p>\n<p>He used to sit with friends<br \/>\ndrinking supermarket cider<br \/>\nreliving Navy days<\/p>\n<p>One by one<br \/>\nthe numbers dwindled<br \/>\nbut he remains.<\/p>\n<p>The cider now replaced<br \/>\nby coffee from the ladies in the charity shop<br \/>\nwho gave him the shoes he wears<br \/>\nand the coat he refused<\/p>\n<p>A cheery greeting when he recognises you<br \/>\nhelpful and polite when he is able<br \/>\nalways there<br \/>\nweather permitting<br \/>\njust one of the sights of our town.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just one of the sights by cricketjeff on March 10, 2009.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved Alone on the bench outside the Baptist church he sits fighting his demons and talking to his gods. He used to sit with friends drinking supermarket cider reliving Navy days One by one the numbers dwindled but he [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":9721,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-3680","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3680","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=3680"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3680\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7828,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3680\/revisions\/7828"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}