{"id":3917,"date":"2023-11-26T20:27:08","date_gmt":"2023-11-26T20:27:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=3917"},"modified":"2023-11-28T22:43:48","modified_gmt":"2023-11-28T22:43:48","slug":"losing-the-night","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/l-poems\/losing-the-night\/","title":{"rendered":"Losing the Night"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Losing the Night<br \/>\nby cricketjeff on June 11, 2009.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved<br \/>\nThe London night is peppered with a thousand tiny stars<br \/>\n\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 But never with the silver milky way<br \/>\nWe&#8217;ve sprinkled ghostly glow-worms to make safer roads for cars<br \/>\n\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 And lost the finest sights of yesterday<br \/>\nI&#8217;d have to move one hundred miles to see one million lights<br \/>\nAnd bask beneath the theatre of those dark departed nights<\/p>\n<p>When I was young my Father worked a few weeks in Japan<br \/>\n\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 And brought me a reflecting telescope<br \/>\nI turned my gazing skyward and saw worlds untouched by man<br \/>\n\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Which filled a childish mind with dreams and hope<br \/>\nBut now for city children there aren&#8217;t stars on winter nights<br \/>\nThey&#8217;re lost inside the overflow of closer manmade lights<\/p>\n<p>Each year I&#8217;m driven farther to observe amazing scenes<br \/>\n\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Which man has seen for all his years on Earth<br \/>\nThe time is fast approaching when we will not have the means<br \/>\n\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 To show our children what the night is worth<br \/>\nSo if you have the fortune to live far from wasteful lights<br \/>\nTake time to drink the beauty of your deep black star-drenched nights<br \/>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Losing the Night by cricketjeff on June 11, 2009.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved The London night is peppered with a thousand tiny stars \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 But never with the silver milky way We&#8217;ve sprinkled ghostly glow-worms to make safer roads for cars \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 And lost the finest sights [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":9726,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-3917","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3917","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=3917"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3917\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7591,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3917\/revisions\/7591"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}