{"id":3690,"date":"2023-11-26T20:27:31","date_gmt":"2023-11-26T20:27:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=3690"},"modified":"2023-11-28T23:04:47","modified_gmt":"2023-11-28T23:04:47","slug":"the-old-caretaker","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/the-poems\/the-old-caretaker\/","title":{"rendered":"The Old Caretaker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> The Old Caretaker<br \/>\nby cricketjeff on March 14, 2009.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved<br \/>\nHis habits never changed across the years<br \/>\nHe strode his route without a single pause<br \/>\nFor him the future held no hidden fears<br \/>\nHe would not change no matter what the cause<\/p>\n<p>The school was old and filled with childhood dreams<br \/>\nYet in his face was not the slightest smile<br \/>\nHe took detachment to the last extremes<br \/>\nAnd friendly chat would never be his style<\/p>\n<p>And yet he loved his charges in his way<br \/>\nHe did his job and they were not aware<br \/>\nOf how he gave them all his everyday<br \/>\nHe felt their school was always in his care<\/p>\n<p>And nothing changed the night his body died<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s still his school and he still walks inside<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Old Caretaker by cricketjeff on March 14, 2009.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved His habits never changed across the years He strode his route without a single pause For him the future held no hidden fears He would not change no matter what the cause The school was old and filled with childhood [&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-3690","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3690","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=3690"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3690\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7820,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3690\/revisions\/7820"}],"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=3690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}