{"id":3786,"date":"2023-11-26T20:27:10","date_gmt":"2023-11-26T20:27:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=3786"},"modified":"2023-11-28T22:56:38","modified_gmt":"2023-11-28T22:56:38","slug":"reflections-out-of-time","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/r-poems\/reflections-out-of-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Reflections out of Time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Reflections out of Time<br \/>\nby cricketjeff on April 19, 2009.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved<br \/>\nMy mirror shows reflections out of time<br \/>\nPortraying me as victim of a crime<br \/>\nInstead of handsome beauty in its prime<br \/>\nThere&#8217;s wrinkles that a steeplejack would climb<\/p>\n<p>I see a view of some far future day<br \/>\nWhere inky black has slowly slipped away<br \/>\nThe nasty jokes my mirror likes to play<br \/>\nShows that my hair is turning rather grey<\/p>\n<p>That rounded tum cannot belong to me<br \/>\nI&#8217;m careful to maintain vitality<br \/>\nSo that the world will never really see<br \/>\nReflections of undue obesity<\/p>\n<p>It has to be a nasty magic spell<br \/>\nWith crude distortions added in as well<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s not the tale a looking glass should tell<br \/>\nI&#8217;m not this far along the road to hell<\/p>\n<p>My mirror has a tendency to lie<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s showing me another, older, guy<br \/>\nI haven&#8217;t seen as many days go by<br \/>\nSo looking glass will you please tell me why?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reflections out of Time by cricketjeff on April 19, 2009.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved My mirror shows reflections out of time Portraying me as victim of a crime Instead of handsome beauty in its prime There&#8217;s wrinkles that a steeplejack would climb I see a view of some far future day Where inky [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":9738,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-3786","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3786","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=3786"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3786\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7720,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3786\/revisions\/7720"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9738"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}