{"id":3898,"date":"2023-11-26T20:27:08","date_gmt":"2023-11-26T20:27:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=3898"},"modified":"2023-11-28T22:50:49","modified_gmt":"2023-11-28T22:50:49","slug":"ode-to-a-star","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/o-poems\/ode-to-a-star\/","title":{"rendered":"Ode to a Star"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Ode to a Star<br \/>\nby cricketjeff on June 1, 2009.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved<br \/>\nOh tiny star that twinkles in the night<br \/>\nI wonder how it is you come to be<br \/>\nAre you a diamond waiting there for me<br \/>\nAnd shining in the sun&#8217;s refracted light?<br \/>\nI don&#8217;t think so that answer is too trite<br \/>\nThe sky&#8217;s not filled with gemstones floating free<br \/>\nI think that you must be in some degree<br \/>\nA far more distant sun but just as bright<\/p>\n<p>Although I know no magic makes you shine<br \/>\nYour beauty still can fill my mind with awe<br \/>\nTo me you&#8217;re not a proof of the divine<br \/>\nAnd so I think perhaps I love you more<br \/>\nAstronomy explains you&#8217;re not a sign<br \/>\nBut still I gaze and wonder what you&#8217;re for<\/p>\n<p> Author notes<br \/>\nA petrachan version of Twinkle Twinkle Little Star<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ode to a Star by cricketjeff on June 1, 2009.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved Oh tiny star that twinkles in the night I wonder how it is you come to be Are you a diamond waiting there for me And shining in the sun&#8217;s refracted light? I don&#8217;t think so that answer is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":9732,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-3898","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3898","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=3898"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3898\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7610,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3898\/revisions\/7610"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}