{"id":3902,"date":"2023-11-26T20:27:08","date_gmt":"2023-11-26T20:27:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=3902"},"modified":"2023-11-28T23:09:52","modified_gmt":"2023-11-28T23:09:52","slug":"tomorrows-world","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/t-poems\/tomorrows-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Tomorrow\\&#8217;s World"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Tomorrow&#8217;s World<br \/>\nby cricketjeff on June 4, 2009.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved<\/p>\n<p>The sky is sapphire blue, there&#8217;s golden sunshine all around<br \/>\nBut only if you live above the clouds.<br \/>\nThe weather&#8217;s not so perfect if you live down on the ground,<br \/>\nAt least the rain will keep away the crowds.<\/p>\n<p>The silver minnows nibble at the ripples of the rain,<br \/>\nThe rest of nature&#8217;s beauty&#8217;s washed away.<br \/>\nI feel the need to cuddle in the shelter of my brain<br \/>\nAnd hope tomorrow brings a better day.<\/p>\n<p>With candy floss for kisses, there&#8217;s a funfair on the green<br \/>\nAnd people-watching filling idle hours.<br \/>\nTomorrow&#8217;s sky&#8217;s the bluest that the weatherman has seen<br \/>\nAnd rain is only joyous summer showers.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ll bump&#8217;em on the dodgems and we&#8217;ll scream the Ferris wheel<br \/>\nThen share a melting ice-cream with a smile.<br \/>\nTomorrow&#8217;s always perfect and in dreams it&#8217;s always real<br \/>\nA happy place to spend a little while.<\/p>\n<p>But work dictates, and phones complain, tomorrow fades to grey<br \/>\nI tuck you back inside your special place.<br \/>\nWhen rain arrives with misery I put away today<br \/>\nAnd find tomorrow&#8217;s smile back on my face.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tomorrow&#8217;s World by cricketjeff on June 4, 2009.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved The sky is sapphire blue, there&#8217;s golden sunshine all around But only if you live above the clouds. The weather&#8217;s not so perfect if you live down on the ground, At least the rain will keep away the crowds. The silver [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":9748,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-3902","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3902","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=3902"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3902\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7607,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3902\/revisions\/7607"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}