{"id":3873,"date":"2023-11-26T20:27:09","date_gmt":"2023-11-26T20:27:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=3873"},"modified":"2023-11-28T23:04:45","modified_gmt":"2023-11-28T23:04:45","slug":"the-best-time-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/the-poems\/the-best-time-of-the-year\/","title":{"rendered":"The best time of the year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> The best time of the year<br \/>\nby cricketjeff on May 24, 2009.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved<br \/>\nAnd on such days as this<br \/>\nWhen summer sun makes golden windows gleam<br \/>\nThe bees delight the purple clematis<br \/>\nAnd fools wear smiles of H\u00e4agen-Dazs ice-cream<br \/>\nOur little pond has froglets by the score<br \/>\nAnd sparrows dart from feeder to their nests<br \/>\nMost pretty girls wear tee shirts I adore<br \/>\nThat make the most of nicely curving breasts<\/p>\n<p>And on such days as this<br \/>\nWhen sunlight dapples paths between the flowers<br \/>\nA glass of wine is surely part of bliss<br \/>\nWhile test match special eats away the hours<br \/>\nThe park is filled with children and their dads<br \/>\nAnd boys and girls hit cricket balls with glee<br \/>\nThe teenage girls show off their latest fads<br \/>\nUntil it&#8217;s time for grandma&#8217;s house for tea<\/p>\n<p>And on such days as this<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s evening in the garden of the pub<br \/>\nYou hope that there will be a friendly kiss<br \/>\nAnd drinks accompany much needed grub<br \/>\nThe ducks still hope for extra crumbs of bread<br \/>\nWhile sunlight fades and single stars appear<br \/>\nA final drink then heading home for bed<br \/>\nThis really is the best time of the year<\/p>\n<p> Author notes<br \/>\nOK so it&#8217;s probably too long [Posts%20by%20cricketjeff%202_files\/happy.gif]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The best time of the year by cricketjeff on May 24, 2009.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved And on such days as this When summer sun makes golden windows gleam The bees delight the purple clematis And fools wear smiles of H\u00e4agen-Dazs ice-cream Our little pond has froglets by the score And sparrows dart [&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-3873","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3873","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=3873"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3873\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7634,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3873\/revisions\/7634"}],"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=3873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}