{"id":3780,"date":"2023-11-26T20:27:10","date_gmt":"2023-11-26T20:27:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=3780"},"modified":"2023-11-28T22:00:01","modified_gmt":"2023-11-28T22:00:01","slug":"in-the-shadows","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/i-poems\/in-the-shadows\/","title":{"rendered":"In the shadows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> In the shadows<br \/>\nby cricketjeff on April 17, 2009.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved<br \/>\n[Posts%20by%20cricketjeff%202_files\/mystery_by_kalosz.jpg]<\/p>\n<p>No tears will fall to stain her pretty face<br \/>\nNo sound escapes to give herself away<br \/>\nUnseen behind a heavy screen of lace<br \/>\nAs he betrays their life in foolish play<\/p>\n<p>He promised her his love was hers alone<br \/>\nHe longed to be the sparkle in her eyes<br \/>\nA man like him was never hers to own<br \/>\nShe always knew his life was built on lies<\/p>\n<p>Surprised to find she wields an iron resolve<br \/>\nIn sadness but without a strong regret<br \/>\nWithout a man the world will still revolve<br \/>\nA waste of time to chase a losing bet<\/p>\n<p>Tomorrow she will start a better life<br \/>\nAnd leave that bastard to his loving wife<\/p>\n<p> Author notes<br \/>\n113 words<\/p>\n<p>credit for the art goes to Kalosz at DeviantArt.com<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/kalosz.deviantart.com\/art\/mystery-48786085<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the shadows by cricketjeff on April 17, 2009.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved [Posts%20by%20cricketjeff%202_files\/mystery_by_kalosz.jpg] No tears will fall to stain her pretty face No sound escapes to give herself away Unseen behind a heavy screen of lace As he betrays their life in foolish play He promised her his love was hers alone [&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-3780","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3780","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=3780"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3780\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7728,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3780\/revisions\/7728"}],"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=3780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}