{"id":3743,"date":"2023-11-26T20:27:10","date_gmt":"2023-11-26T20:27:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=3743"},"modified":"2023-11-28T23:09:04","modified_gmt":"2023-11-28T23:09:04","slug":"the-third-ghost","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/the-poems\/the-third-ghost\/","title":{"rendered":"The third ghost"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> The third ghost<br \/>\nby cricketjeff on April 3, 2009.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved<br \/>\nOld Joe was such a fool, we all could see<br \/>\nThe way he looked at Molly round the house<br \/>\nHe didn&#8217;t hide his feelings from his spouse<br \/>\nAffairs like theirs all end in tragedy<br \/>\nWhen Mary found them where they should not be<br \/>\nHer husband acted like a frightened mouse<br \/>\nHe dropped the girl, behaving like a louse<br \/>\nLeft on her own she faced maternity<\/p>\n<p>I tried to be her friend but she was lost<br \/>\nShe could not face the thought of motherhood<br \/>\nWithout the only love she&#8217;d ever known<br \/>\nIn time he knew that he must pay the cost<br \/>\nAnd only Mary never understood<br \/>\nHe needed all the love she&#8217;d never shown<\/p>\n<p>They live again inside the house he built<br \/>\nAnd I still wait to offer her my heart<br \/>\nHe claimed her then and tore my soul apart<br \/>\nTheir suffering the penalty for guilt<br \/>\nWhen they were caught I saw my Molly wilt<br \/>\nAnd then I saw the truth of Cupid&#8217;s dart<br \/>\nMy practice of the jealous suitor&#8217;s art<br \/>\nThe sword that pierced her chances to the hilt<\/p>\n<p>I told his wife where they would be that day<br \/>\nAnd so I also haunt this evil stage<br \/>\nI&#8217;ll watch their love until the end of time<br \/>\nThe highest price a lover has to pay<br \/>\nTo know he killed his love in jealous rage<br \/>\nEternal punishment for passion&#8217;s crime<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The third ghost by cricketjeff on April 3, 2009.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved Old Joe was such a fool, we all could see The way he looked at Molly round the house He didn&#8217;t hide his feelings from his spouse Affairs like theirs all end in tragedy When Mary found them where they [&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-3743","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3743","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=3743"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3743\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7764,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3743\/revisions\/7764"}],"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=3743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}