{"id":3923,"date":"2023-11-26T20:27:08","date_gmt":"2023-11-26T20:27:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=3923"},"modified":"2023-11-28T22:47:40","modified_gmt":"2023-11-28T22:47:40","slug":"not-quite-past-it","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/n-poems\/not-quite-past-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Not quite past it!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Not quite past it!<br \/>\nby cricketjeff on June 14, 2009.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved<br \/>\nI&#8217;ve always been attracted to the edges<br \/>\nWhere things are not as simple as they seem<br \/>\nThe countryside is best along the hedges<br \/>\nAnd cliff-top paths are where I love to dream<\/p>\n<p>On summer days I long to walk on beaches<br \/>\nTo dip my toes as waves approach the shore<br \/>\nAnd when I&#8217;ve dared to touch the furthest reaches<br \/>\nI&#8217;ll always want to stretch a little more<\/p>\n<p>And then I found an unexpected pleasure<br \/>\nWhen I had thought I&#8217;d reached the furthest rim<br \/>\nPerhaps a final chance to grasp the treasure<br \/>\nTo bathe in waters where the sirens swim<\/p>\n<p>Now years have brought me minor aches and twinges<br \/>\nBut I still want to live life on the fringes<\/p>\n<p> Author notes<br \/>\nI like alternating male and female rhymes, males next to females is how it<br \/>\nshould be!!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not quite past it! by cricketjeff on June 14, 2009.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved I&#8217;ve always been attracted to the edges Where things are not as simple as they seem The countryside is best along the hedges And cliff-top paths are where I love to dream On summer days I long to walk [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":9730,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-3923","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3923","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=3923"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3923\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7585,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3923\/revisions\/7585"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}