{"id":3854,"date":"2023-11-26T20:27:09","date_gmt":"2023-11-26T20:27:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=3854"},"modified":"2023-11-28T22:00:01","modified_gmt":"2023-11-28T22:00:01","slug":"ive-been-sitting-in-the-garden","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/i-poems\/ive-been-sitting-in-the-garden\/","title":{"rendered":"I\\&#8217;ve been sitting in the garden"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> I&#8217;ve been sitting in the garden<br \/>\nby cricketjeff on May 16, 2009.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved<br \/>\nI&#8217;ve been sitting in the garden, watching cricket, drinking tea<br \/>\nWith a cone of cherry ice-cream, on the table next to me.<br \/>\nI was watching England batting, they were scoring run on run,<br \/>\nWest Indies, who were fielding, didn&#8217;t find the game much fun.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been sitting in the garden, reading Shakespeare, drinking wine,<br \/>\nWith a slice of cake for afters, that is not as good as mine.<br \/>\nWhen you&#8217;re lost in &#8220;As You Like It&#8221; London suburbs fade away,<br \/>\nRosalind had other worries in her world of yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been sitting in the garden, dreaming dreams of other lives,<br \/>\nWhen the past has been rewritten, without tragedies and wives.<br \/>\nYou and I would have a future, and a present, and a past,<br \/>\nBut the evening turned quite chilly so the dreaming couldn&#8217;t last.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not sitting in the garden, in the drizzle and the rain,<br \/>\nBut when sunshine&#8217;s back in Harrow I&#8217;ll be sitting there again.<br \/>\nOther days my life&#8217;s too busy, in the office or with friends,<br \/>\nBut a day of spring and pleasure, very nearly, makes amends.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been sitting in the garden by cricketjeff on May 16, 2009.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved I&#8217;ve been sitting in the garden, watching cricket, drinking tea With a cone of cherry ice-cream, on the table next to me. I was watching England batting, they were scoring run on run, West Indies, who were [&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-3854","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3854","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=3854"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3854\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7654,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3854\/revisions\/7654"}],"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=3854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}